As you will be aware Cordale Housing Association is in the process of building 40 Extra Care Housing apartments in the heart of the village.  Completion of the building anticipated for October this year. The following is a list of those things key to this particular development.

• It enables older people from Renton and the surrounding area to stay in a home of their own.
• It provides access to 24 hour care and support to people according to their agreed needs.
• It extends the choice of housing available for older people who have care and support needs, as an alternative to residential care.
• It offers an environment that helps people to make choices, to retain their independence and control over their lives.
• It gives each person all the usual rights of being a tenant and to provide care and support so that they retain their independence.
• Each person will have privacy and quiet within your own flat to enterain friends and relatives.
• It creates a safe and secure environment to live in.

• Self-contained one bedroom flats.
• Each flat has its own front door, bedroom, lounge, kitchen and shower room (including WC).  The kitchen is laid out so that you can accommodate your own white goods.  The Association will not be supplying white goods.
• Emergency intercom alarm system will pull cords in each room.  (Pendant triggers worn on the wrist or neck available).

• Special bathrooms for assisted bathing.
• A large centrally located tenants' lounge, dining kitchen and conservatory.
• Smaller lounges for informal gatherings of tenants.
• Guests bedrooms which may be booked for visiting relatives/friends.
• A laundry room containing washing machines and tumble dryers for personal use of tenants and/or their carers.
• A 24 hour entrance door entry phone system to give additional home security.
• A lift to give easy access to first and second floor accommodation.

• An emergency call system giving 24 hour response.
• Project manager whose primary functions are to ensure the well being of tenants through the supervision of staff and the organising of social activities.
• A team of staff to provide personal care and support on an individually assessed basis.
• Economic provision of all heating, electricity, gas and water rates to each flat through a weekly service charge.

The Association is currently working on the rental and service charge figures in order to meet the cost of the building.  These should be made available November 2008 and will be included in any offer of accommodation letters which will be sent out.

If you are allocated an apartment in the future and you are concenrned about whether you will qualify for housing benefit to assist in the rental and service charge payments, we can arrange an assessment of your financial situation free of charge and in confidence.

Recently West Dunbartonshire Council has been assisting the Association by visiting applicants who have expressed an interest in the building.  This visit assists the Association in the assessment and prioritisation of the applicants who are on the current housing list.

There have been a lot of rumours that the Association has sold some of these apartments.  None of these apartments are for sale.