As part of Neighbourhood Services ongoing strategy, refurbishment work to Hackwood, Wallace and Harry Price Houses has now been completed on the Lion Farm Estate in Oldbury.
The Wimpey no-fines concrete panel blocks, constructed in 1963, contain a total of 210 two bedroom flats.
The objective of this project has been to reduce fuel poverty, improve health and wellbeing of the tenants, provide a very low maintenance scheme giving the blocks an additional at least 30 years life and to provide support and encouragement to the area and community as a whole including small and large businesses supplying labour and goods and helping charitable groups.
Design measures included:
- Concrete panel repairs.
- Over cladding of the blocks with mineral wool insulation and rainscreen cladding to improve the thermal efficiency.
- Replacement of single glazed windows with double glazed tilt and turn aluminium/timber composite windows.
- New balcony doors and balcony upgrade.
- Demolition of redundant storage sheds at ground floor level to give future provision for the construction of new flats.
- Extensive fire stopping measures including new smoke alarms and heat detectors.
- Installation of fire resistant doors and screens to all floor levels.
- New insulated pitched roofs to cover the existing flat roofs.
- New front entrance lobbies with secure key fob door entry systems.
- Additional external CCTV cameras throughout together with cameras located within the internal entrance lobby areas.
- Upgrade of street lighting.
- Landscape works including additional car parking spaces.
