Bridgewater Housing Association is a provider of social housing and land and property management services in Erskine, Renfrewshire.
Our website has been designed to make it easy for you to find out information about us, and to help you with your tenancy. We are always looking for, and finding, new ways to make things as simple as possible and to keep you informed.
It’s now even easier to navigate our website with our new look menus! Furthermore, if you are looking for a quick way to pay your rent or owners charges, paying online is now even easier! We take pride in being one of the ONLY housing associations UK wide who can take payments directly from our website – without the need to have your Allpay card handy.
BRIDGEWATER HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED PRIVACY POLICY (Data Protection Policy)
This year’s Annual General Meeting will take place on
The Care Inspectorate has graded Bridgewater’s Housing Support Service
Chairman Hugh Cameron
Vice Chairman Alastair Morris
Secretary Heather Stirling
Angela Westrop
Willie Robertson
John Paterson
Rab McNally
Frank Bradley
Aileen Naismith
Ken McIntosh
Jim Sheridan
Chief Executive
Office Administrator
Lesley Hughes
Telephone: 0141-814-5158
Email: LHughes@bridgewaterha.org.uk
Housing Services Manager
Housing Officer – North Barr
Myra Buchanan
Telephone: 0141-814-5162
Email: MBuchanan@bridgewaterha.org.uk
Housing Officer – Park Mains
Mark Wilson
Telephone: 0141-814-5164
Email: MWilson@bridgewaterha.org.uk
Housing Officer – Bargarran
Megan McQuade
Telephone: 0141-814-5163
Email: MMcQuade@bridgewaterha.org.uk
Clerical Assistant – Housing Applications/Waiting Lists, and Lockup/Garages
Helen Goode
Telephone: 0141-814-5168
Email: HGoode@bridgewaterha.org.uk
Technical Services Manager
Factoring Officer
Ian Munro
Telephone: 0141-814-5171
Email: IMunro@bridgewaterha.org.uk
Property Maintenance Officer
Brenda Gibson
Telephone: 0141-814-5157
Email: BGibson@bridgewaterha.org.uk
Property Maintenance Assistant
Lisa Crossan
Telephone: 0141-814-5161
Email: LCrossan@bridgewaterha.org.uk
Repairs Officer
Lyndsey Louden
Telephone: 0141-814-5159
Email: LLouden@bridgewaterha.org.uk
Head of Finance
Finance Officer
Alison Smeaton
Telephone: 0141-814-5160
Email: ASmeaton@bridgewaterha.org.uk
Finance Assistant
Nicola Paterson
Telephone: 0141-814-5169
Email: NPaterson@bridgewaterha.org.uk
Receptionist (Part Time)
Lauren Gallacher
Telephone: 0141-814-5167
Email: LGallacher@bridgewaterha.org.uk
Receptionist (Part Time)
Sheena Johnstone
Telephone: 0141-812-2237
Email: SJohnstone@bridgewaterha.org.uk
Housing Support Coordinator
Housing Support Officer
Ruby Robertson
Telephone: 0141-812-3906
Email: RRobertson@bridgewaterha.org.uk
Housing Support Officer
Ann McGeachan
Telephone: 0141-812-1708
Email: AMcGeachan@bridgewaterha.org.uk
Housing Support Officer
Pat Bell
Telephone: 0141-812-1708
Email: PBell@bridgewaterha.org.uk
Housing Support Assistant
Janette Brown
Telephone: 0141-812-3906
Email: JBrown@bridgewaterha.org.uk
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Our website has been designed to give you an idea of what we do and the range of services we provide to our customers. You can use the links on the left hand side of this page to find out more about Bridgewater Housing Association and what we do.
Our Mission: Bridgewater’s mission is to be a customer focused organisation, which delivers the best affordable housing and services to people that need them and makes a positive difference to the neighborhoods in which we work.
Our purpose is delivered by:
The guiding principles we work by are:
Wider Role
The Association believes that its role in Erskine is not simply about providing homes and related services.
Erskine is a community and the Association believes that it has a pivotal role in supporting the community in any way it can, whilst not compromising its core objectives. Consequently the Association actively seeks and has been successful in receiving external funding for projects which:
Bridgewater Housing Association also engages in more diverse activities such as:
IT Services
If you’re another Housing Association and you’re looking at our website and apps and thinking of building or improving your own, we can help.
Bridgewater Housing Association’s experienced IT team are able to assist you with Website Development, App Development, Integrated Website Payments, General IT Audit and consultancy services, and much more.
We’d be happy to help, and welcome you to get in touch today for a discussion.
The organisation is governed by a Board of Trustees who are volunteers and who are not paid. They come from all walks of life but have one thing in common and that is that they either live in Erskine or have an interest in it. Anyone who is a member of the Association can become a Director of the organisation and play a more involved part in the running of the Association.
The origins of the Association, lie in the development of Government Housing Policy during the 1980s when it was decided that Scottish Homes should transfer all of its properties either to existing Housing Associations or to new ones. Consequently in December 1997 tenants of Scottish Homes voted overwhelmingly in a ballot to transfer the ownership and management of their homes to Bridgewater Housing Association – a new organisation established by local people for this purpose.
On 15 April 1998 some 946 homes and 499 lock up garages, together with the ownership of and responsibility for maintaining substantial areas of “common land” and other spaces was transferred to Bridgewater Housing Association. All of the former Scottish Homes staff were transferred as well as their offices and other obligations and the Association became the Feu Superior to around 2400 owner occupiers and the Factor to a further 150 owners living in the flats.
Today Bridgewater manages around 800 social rented properties, together with 500 lock up garages and provides a factoring service to nearly 2700 owner occupiers, including looking after the equivalent of 40 full size football pitches in common environmental maintenance, as well as a management service to tenants of other organisations living out with Erskine.
The Association provides a range of accommodation and services for families, single people, the elderly and disabled people. We provide, under contract to Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire Council, the Care and Repair Service for both of these local authorities and we provide, under contract to Renfrewshire Council a Housing Support Service to 94 sheltered tenants.
The Application form should be completed and returned along with £1. Your share application will be considered by the Board at their next Board meeting. If your application is approved by the Board you will immediately become a member and your name and address will appear in the Register of members. You will be issued with a certificate for one share of the Association.
Who can become a member of the Association?
Tenant’s of the Association or partners or adult children (18 or over) of tenants who reside with them, owner occupiers and the partners or adult children (18 or over) of such owner occupiers residing with them, or general individuals can become members of the Association.
Click here to download an Application for Share Membership
The inspection was carried out by the Scottish Housing Regulator under section 69 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 on behalf of Scottish Ministers. The purpose of the Inspection was to provide an independent external assessment of the effectiveness of housing service delivery, and make recommendations to help improvement.
In carrying out the Inspection, the Scottish Housing Regulator asked two key questions of Bridgewater:
The Scottish Housing Regulator awarded the Association a B grade overall. This represents a good performance.
Overall the Regulator’s assessment is that Bridgewater has many strengths and some weaknesses. The Association delivers accessible and good quality services, reports consistently high levels of tenant satisfaction and works with its customers to improve its services. It has a good awareness of where it needs to improve, is making progress on developing its new corporate strategy and was very responsive to the regulator’s feedback during the inspection.
The Association is pleased with the outcome of the inspection and has been working during the year to address the weaknesses in our corporate planning which the Regulator identified.
Please click here to download performance inspection report for 2009-2010
Public Holidays 2018/2019
The Association will observe or has observed the following public holidays during 2018/2019.
* The office will be closed during Christmas and New Years on the following dates: TBA
Bridgewater Housing Association