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Clearly, any Private Sector Housing team needs to maintain a comprehensive record of all properties within its area. UNI-form for Private Sector Housing simplifies this process by:
- Property details – all information about premises, such as owner and agent details, tenant information and addresses is entered using standard forms created within UNI-form. The data is logged in a central database
- Inspections – UNI-form provides an excellent means of managing workflow. Inspection dates are automatically scheduled and reminders provided. Standard forms are included in the software to record and manage enforcement actions
- Risk assessments – to ensure a consistent approach to risk assessments, UNI-form offers a standard risk assessment form and processing tool.
- Spatial – spatial functionality enables officers to view private sector housing geographically, helping allocate resources and gain a greater insigh tinto under-provisioned/over-provisioned areas
Multiple occupancy
Many premises today are used for multiple occupancy, with a number of constituent flats. UNI-form helps manage these multiple occupancy buildings, through features such as:
- Flat sizes – information on the size of each flat is recorded in a central repository, helping determine maximum residency and combating overcrowding
- Flat facilities – UNI-form enables officers to store information about facilities provided in flats including heating, plumbing and power to ensure that standards are adhered to
- Tenancy details – to help in arbitration and maintain accurate records of tenants, UNI-form provides standard forms for noting details of tenants and leases and letting arrangements
- Spatial – officers can view multiple occupancy information on a map, enabling them to better understand the geographic spread of multiple occupancy buildings
Housing surveys
UNI-form can help meet the government requirement that detailed housing surveys are conducted regularly. It provides such key features as:
- Questionnaire creation – to help devise questionnaires and other input forms and ensure all data fields are covered, UNI-form includes a standard system for questionnaire creation
- Data entry – using any browser-compatible device, UNI-form enables simple data entry into the central system, providing an accurate, constantly updated database for analysis
- Spatial analysis – by giving officers the ability to visualise housing survey data, UNI-form empowers greater analysis of the housing stock, helping identify under provisioned areas, failing landlords and other important trends
Renewal assessments
A powerful but underused feature of UNI-form, renewal assessments helps Private Sector Housing teams make better decisions about renewal – and be better equipped to justify such decisions at public inquiry or arbitration – through such features as:
- Net present value calculation – by incorporating a variety of datasets, UNI-form enables authorities to gain an accurate understanding of the net present value of a property
- Renovation – to help make a decision on whether a property is worthy of renovation, UNI-form calculates the costs and potential value of the renovated property
- Demolition – by conducting a number of analyses, UNI-form can help officers decide on whether a property should be condemned to demolition
- Re-build – as well as enabling officers to project the value and cost of renovation, UNI-form also offers a means of assessing the cost and value of re-building the property
- Spatial –a crucial partof the analytical process is to understand the consequences of a decision for properties in the immediate proximity. UNI-form Spatial helps officers gain a greater understanding of what properties would be affected by decisions and how
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