An arm's-length management organisation is pioneering a model of community involvement. Bolton At Home has divided its borough into 14 districts.
Each will have a team of tenants to decide how to spend its share of Bolton's £170m ALMO funding over the coming five years.

Community involvement officer Ann Farrell said: "They will be presented with details of what we have got to do and what money we have got to do it, and asked where they think we should start."

The tenant panels will be up and running by the end of this year, with their feedback influencing spending for 2004/5.

Meanwhile, two of the remaining third-round ALMO bidders have had their conditional allocations confirmed.

Islington and Barnet will get £24.9m and £19.1m respectively for 2004/6. The two authorities had to wait longer than the other 10 successful bidders to have their allocations confirmed because of "technical issues" that are now understood to have been resolved.

Only Solihull has yet to have its initial allocation confirmed.

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Housing Today