
Managing your home
With useful tools like My Silva and our anti-social behaviour reporting app, managing your home has never been easier!
Use the list of links below for support in managing your home.
Useful links
About My Silva, our digital portal
My Silva is the easiest way to book a repair, check your rent accounts and update your details.
Make a payment
Everything you need to know about paying your rent and service charges.
Learn more about making a payment
Our repairs service
We share the responsibility for home maintenance with you.
Learn more about our repairs service
Report anti-social behaviour
If you experience anti-social behaviour in your neighbourhood, please let us know and we will take appropriate action.
Learn how to report anti-social behaviour
Keeping pets in your home
If you would like to keep a pet in your home, all you need to do is fill in our pet care form.
Apply for contents insurance and read our home safety tips
Contents insurance is designed to help protect your possessions.
Find out how to get content insurance and how to keep your home safe
Our environmental services
We provide cleaning and caretaking services in communal areas of our homes and look after 12,000 trees.
Learn more about our environmental services
Buy or acquire your home
The government's Right to Acquire and Right to Buy schemes enable you to buy your public-sector-owned home at a discount.
Find out if you are eligible to buy your home at a discount
Access hoarding support
Hoarding behaviours can be caused by a range of factors and affect people in different ways.
Learn more about the hoarding support we offer
Home alterations
If you would like to carry out any improvements to your home, including internal alterations and refurbishments, you will need to fill out our agreement form first.
Apply for permission to make changes to your home
Leaseholders
Access a useful list of useful resources for leaseholders
Contact us for more information
If you have a question or need help with anything, don't hesitate to get in touch.
Latest news and developments

As a landlord, we are legally required to complete an electrical safety check in all of our homes every five years. If we have contacted you to request access to your home for an electric…
The free test is a legal requirement that only takes around an hour to complete.

Silva Homes has partnered with RJ Leighfield to deliver nine three-bedroom houses in Bracknell. The development, which is taking place on Rowley Close, is called Rowley Mews and all nine homes will…
Construction has begun on the new Rowley Mews development.

All our customers have been sent letters to notify them that our rents are increasing by 1.5% in April 2021. As a not-for-profit housing associsation, we spend all our surplus on improving our ho…
Our rents are increasing by 1.5% from April 2021

Olivia, our access and support manager, is leading our efforts to tackle domestic abuse - an issue that has grown during the coronavirus pandemic. “I’m really proud to have been ap…
Olivia Fuller, our access and support manager, is leading our efforts to tackle domestic abuse

In this interview, Jamie, our electrical trades manager, speaks about the dangers of electricity, what electrical safety tests are, and why it’s so important that we do them regularly. In add…
Electrical safety checks are vital in preventing fires and making your home safer

The census 2021 takes place on 21 March, but you will receive an invitation letter to take part from early March. What is the Census 2021? The census is a once-in-a-decade survey run b…
The census is a once-in-a-decade survey that gives an accurate estimate of all the people and households in England and Wales.

Even though we are in a national lockdown, we are working hard to provide a normal service for you. Unfortunately, we are still facing barriers which might make our repairs services sligh…
Even though we are in a national lockdown, we are working hard to provide a normal service for you.

Kind-hearted Silva Homes housing association customers are uniting to spread festive cheer by forming support bubbles to beat the coronavirus pandemic. Small groups of people in Silva’s indep…
Kind-hearted Silva Homes housing association customers are uniting to spread festive cheer by forming support bubbles to beat the coronavirus pandemic.

In the ‘Silva 2020 Challenge’, kind-hearted Silva Homes colleagues went the extra mile to undertake a series of fundraising activities. So far, they have raised over £1,000 for the m…
With everything going on in 2020, colleagues at Silva Homes, have decided to put Mind over matter to help support a new charity fundraising campaign.

Every month until March 2021, three lucky Silva customers will win a Love2Shop voucher in our prize draw. Three prizes will be given out each month: First prize: £150 Second prize: &pou…
If you have an electrical test or audit in your home, before January 2021, you could win a prize