The National Tenant Voice is to wind down its formal company structure as it seeks a way to carry on independently. Board members agreed last week the body, set up at the start of the year to give tenants a voice, no longer needed to be constituted as a limited company. It has put in a bid to housing minister Grant Shapps for £50,000 to investigate the feasibility of it running independently of the government’s help. Mr Shapps announced that the NTV, with its 15 board members and 50-strong tenant council, was to go in the ‘bonfire of quangos’. The directors have already started to look into ways of incorporating the council members into a ‘united and strong tenant movement’. Read more on Inside Housing.
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