A social and affordable housing specialist has set up a new software system to ensure all its properties are fully compliant with all existing regulations.

Riverside, which includes Laurel Court – providing supported independent living for people with a learning disability – at Newsome, among its locations, is responsible for providing and maintaining homes for more than 80,000 people in more than 50,000 homes across 169 local authority areas.

The company is now using Wakefield-based C365 Online’s cloud-based compliance management system, to cut through an organisation’s red tape and ensure that it is meeting its legal obligations.

C365 Online’s hosted software solution allows Riverside’s asset management team to manage more than 50,000 regulatory requirements, which it is required to comply with by law.

Meanwhile, the documentation for more than 50,000 properties, including more than 90 health and safety commitments, will be hosted “in the cloud” by C365 Online.

Riverside says C365 will significantly reduce its regulatory burden while freeing up the property management team to concentrate on more urgent actions such as ensuring that remedial building work and other crucial work is carried out.

More than 500 users now have access to the C365 Online system allowing them to remotely download and manage statutory documentation relating to things like asbestos and fire risk assessments.