Your Newly Elected Tenant Participation Group

We see an elected and mandated TPG as an essential part of our journey towards more positive effective and decision making resident involvement for tenants and leaseholders of South Cambridgeshire District Council
We are pleased to confirm that the following tenants/leaseholders have been elected in a ballot run independently by the Electoral Reform Services and now form a fully mandated group of representatives.

Those elected are:

Sue McKenna - Comberton
Jim Watson - Willingham
Barry Nunn - Cottenham
Thora Saunders - Waterbeach
Joan Spencer - Barton
Monica Connolly - Cottenham
Helen Ballentyne - Dry Drayton
Mavis Mansell - Comberton
Luisa Santini Baldwin - Great Shelford
William (Bill) Bullivant - Waterbeach
Wendy Head - Balsham
David Champion - Dry Drayton
Angela Lewell - Impington
Peter Abrahams - Willingham
Brian Miller - Lolworth

Tenant participation group (TPG)

Core to the structure of tenant participation is the Tenant Participation Group (TPG). This group was established around 2000 following a successful tenants' open day at Sawston. The group has continued to grow and develop as the number of tenant and resident's groups throughout the district has increased.

TPG is an elected and mandated tenant group. It holds monthly meetings run by its members to which Council Officers report on request. TPG feeds into the Council's wider democratic processes by ensuring that all reports on housing services issued to the Housing Portfolio Holder and Cabinet will include the outcome of consultation with TPG as well as their recommendations. New regulatory changes including those in the Localism Act 2011 mean that TPG will be part of a strategy to create a tenant led Scrutiny Panel (or similar) that will be entirely independent of officers and members and will have authority to request performance information, to commission reports on services and to request changes to services.

The aims of TPG:

To participate in the management of housing services in South Cambridgeshire district, on behalf of all the Council tenants in the district;
To promote the interests of the Council tenants and leaseholders of the district;
To influence the practices and policies that govern the provision of housing services in the district;
To maintain an effective partnership with the officers who manage housing services in the district, and to communicate positively and effectively with the Members of the Council;
To generate ideas and proposals which may affect the Council tenants in the district;
To review customer satisfaction/complaints data to identify areas for improvement which can be learnt from the feedback obtained
To participate in Budget preparation
To inform the Council tenants and leaseholders of the District about all matters of concern to them on a regular basis - via the housing pages of the quarterly South Cambs Magazine and by other methods as identified by tenants themselves through tenant and residents groups, Tenant e-say group etc;
To consult Council tenants on all matters of concern to them as identified by tenants/leaseholders themselves and by Housing Services Management Team
To encourage the formation of tenants and resident's group throughout the district through the launch of the Tenant Participation Agreement and publicising the new menu of involvement

TPG Constitution

TPG Code of Conduct

TPG Equal Opportunities Policy

Minutes of the TPG meetings: