The number of complaints relating to breaches of tenancy in Clare social housing has halved in the space of a month.
Clare County Council has received more than 800 anti-social behaviour complaints up to the end of October this year.
The local authority’s Estate Management Team received 834 compaints of tenancy breaches in the past year, with 93 of those lodged between September 27th and October 31st alone.
This is half of the complaints received during the previous month, when 187 complaints were made to Clare County Council.
There has been an increase in the number of monthly and total complaints from 2023, with 81 more total complaints made so far this year.
The number of tenancy visits by the Estate Management Team has risen sharply in the past 12 months, with 1,280 visits made in 2024 compared to 589 last year.
However, this is attributed by the local authority as “a more proactive approach being taken with the team in engaging with tenants” rather than spates of antisocial behaviour increasing in the year.
In the previous month there were four referrals to tenancy support services taking the total amount recorded this year to 49, up from 25 at the same stage in 2023.
The local authority issued a further three tenancy warnings taking the yearly total to 57, which is less than half the 124 seen at the end of October 12 months ago.
Clare County Council issued one abandonment notice last month, while the estate management team collected keys from six casual vacancies.
Although there were no repossession orders issued last month, Clare County Council has noted there will be several repossession applications going through the courts in the coming months.
