If you're a council tenant or leaseholder, you can have your say on how the housing service is run.
Get involved
You can give us feedback online, join a tenant and leaseholder group or forum, take part in events, surveys or consultations and workshops.
Visit our Tenant Participation facebook page to get more involved or share experiences.
Resident and Community Panel
The Resident and Community Panel is a recognised panel of tenants, leaseholders, and representatives from local community organisation.
The panel aims to hold us to account for how were performing and influences decisions before they are made.
Visit Housing Resident and Community Panel to learn more.
Scrutiny
We offer the Housing Scrutiny Panel and Scrutiny Bootcamps for residents.
Visit Housing Scrutiny Panel for more information.
Housing Scrutiny Panel
The Housing Scrutiny Panel is a recognised panel of tenants and leaseholders.
The Panel helps us to improve our performance and standards.
Scrutiny Bootcamps
These are short, focused sessions where residents and staff come together to look closely at a specific housing service.
They help us understand what is working well and what needs to improve.
High-Rise Living Group
We're setting up a new group for tenants and leaseholders who live in high-rise buildings.
The High-Rise Living Group will be an opportunity to talk about communal living areas, building safety, collective wellbeing, and other topics that are important to residents who live high-rise buildings.
If you're interested in getting involved:
- email: tpu@bristol.gov.uk
- call: 0117 352 1444
Leaseholders Forums
The Leaseholder Forum meets three times a year.
It gives council leaseholders a dedicated space to discuss the services they receive and suggest improvements.
Visit Council leaseholders for more information and how to join.
Social Housing drop-in events
We support bi-monthly drop-in events for council tenants.
These drop events are in partnership with Black South West Network and other local community organisations.
The events are intended to improve accessibility to council housing services for minoritised communities.
Events will be taking place at various locations around Bristol. Find an upcoming event below and click the link to reserve a spot.
Upcoming drop-in events
New dates coming soon for 2026.
Get involved in your local community
If you're a tenant or leaseholder with communal facilities and you have ideas on how to improve them, you can apply to our Environmental Improvement Programme.
You can also:
- get involved with decision making in your area
- find out what's happening in your community and how you can get involved
- find out about the resources and support we offer
National tenant participation
- Tenant Participation Advisory Service (TPAS)
- National Federation of Tenant Management Organisations (NFTMO)
- Homes England
- Regulator of Social Housing
- Four Million Homes: Knowledge and action for change in social housing
Housing News and resources
Resources and support for tenants and leaseholders including the Housing News e-newsletter and events for tenants.
Visit Tenant participation: resources for tenants for more information.
Our performance: council housing
View our council housing annual reports and satisfaction surveys, find out how we're regulated.
Visit Our performance: council housing more information.
Support to get involved
We want to make involvement accessible for everyone.
If you'd like to get involved, need help accessing engagement opportunities, or want more information, contact us.