Strategic housing service re-inspection - Waveney District Council
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Department: Audit CommissionPublished: 2009-04-23 13:42:13On a scale from zero to three stars the Audit Commission gave Waveney District Council´s strategic housing service a ´fair´ one-star rating with promising prospects. The service had previously been assessed as providing a ´poor´, zero-star service with uncertain prospects for improvement in a report published in May 2006. This government news item was published on the Audit Commission website on the 23 April 2009. To read the full story/press release, please click on the button below (opens in an embedded window):
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