WDH improves homes and neighbourhoods with web mapping
Note: As of 1st April 2025, Wakefield and District Housing (WDH) became Vico Homes
An integral part of Wakefield and District Housing’s (WDH) ‘Vision to 2035’ is a £146 million investment in making its homes more energy efficient, ensuring its housing stock meets safety and compliance standards, and making estates more attractive and safer places to live.
With a target of 12,000 homes meeting EPC Band C by 2030, improving fire safety in all buildings and ensuring 100% of boilers and electrical systems are serviced annually is a vast undertaking.
For WDH, investment is based on a whole-dwelling, whole-street, and whole-estate approach. Using SIS WebMap, they have created multiple interactive maps that inform teams across the organisation about the location of assets, ownership, and development projects. All WDH business data is displayed on detailed and up-to-date Ordnance Survey® digital maps.
“Geospatial data is key in supporting the organisation’s asset management requirements and enhances analysis and reporting.”
–Jessica Rieck
GIS Analyst, WDH
WDH is proactively managing its properties and estates to ensure it provides safe and decent homes. It tracks the number of repairs, disrepair claims, EPC ratings, and types of insulation. Integrating this data with spatial data in an easy-to-navigate map gives the Repairs Team a more informed understanding of housing estates. As SIS WebMap links directly to the organisation’s asset management system, information on a property includes the full inspection schedule and repair inventory, enabling them to resolve issues promptly.
Over the last year, WDH has:
- completed 102,414 general repairs
- fixed 5,606 emergency repairs
- fixed 95.1% of repairs on the first visit
- took an average of 8.6 days to complete repairs
“SIS WebMap is our first point of reference. It showcases important data for analysis to support our goal of improving the quality of our homes and neighbourhoods.”
–Jessica Rieck
GIS Analyst, WDH
Housing associations and land and property organisations are realising the benefits of GIS for all phases of asset management and maintenance. These can range from negotiating grounds maintenance contracts to ensuring the sustainability of stock performance and planning improvements in the community.
