Decision Taken By: CABINET MEMBER FOR Planning and Transportation
Decision No: D120018MEM
Date: 20th February 2012
Decision(s) and Reason(s)
Review of the Housing Allocations Scheme
Minutes
The report set out the proposed revisions to the housing allocations scheme, in accordance with the Localism Act 2011, and anticipated timescales for implementation. Members sought clarification that applicants in Band D, assessed as having low need and therefore little prospects of being rehoused from the housing register, would remain on the register and be offered advice on their housing options.
Following consideration by the Strategic Housing Advisory Board, the Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation resolved that:
(1) the proposed method of seeking views on potential changes to the Housing Allocations Scheme be endorsed for the purposes of formal consultation ending on 28 May 2012; and
(2) the timetable for the review of the Housing Allocations Scheme, as set out in section 1.2 of the report, be approved.
Reasons: As set out in the report submitted to the Strategic Housing Advisory Board of 20 February 2012
Signed N Heslop (Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation)
Signed Leader: M Worrall
Signed Chief Executive: D Hughes
Date of Publication: 24 February 2012
This decision will come into force and may then be implemented on the expiry of 5 working days after publication unless it is called in.
In accordance with Paragraph 2, Annex 1 of the Executive Procedure Rules, the Leader nominated the Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation to take this decision in the absence of the Cabinet Member for Housing.