A judgement on a council's social housing has said there are "serious failings" in standards and "significant improvement" is needed.
Swindon Borough Council – which owns and manages more than 10,000 social and affordable rent homes – self-referred to the social housing regulator.
Leader of the council Jim Robbins said he wanted to "work really positively with the regulator" and it had not raised any issues they were not already aware of.
Problems included fire safety, electrical safety and the repair service.
"We knew there were some challenges in our housing departments and we didn't think there had been enough investment" said Mr Robbins, who explained they already had plans to sort all the issues.
He said that the council has already planned to spend £250m on its homes.
"We are committed to doing everything we can to sort that out as quickly as possible. We also want to build new council housing to get down the amount of people on our waiting list" he added.
