Decision details

(Report of Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health)

Further to Decision No D150011CAB, the report set out details of the re-evaluation of the proposed financial thresholds and the status on the housing register of households which exceeded those thresholds.  A copy of the revised Housing Allocation Scheme was attached at Annex 3 to the report and it was advised that the 13 Private Registered Providers within the Borough and other main stakeholders would be consulted on the proposed revisions to the scheme. 

Following consideration by the Strategic Housing Advisory Board, the Cabinet Member for Economic Regeneration resolved that:

1)         the proposed revisions to the Housing Allocation Scheme be approved;

2)         the revised scheme be implemented in July 2015; and

3)         the Chief Housing Officer be authorised, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Housing and the Chairman of the Strategic Housing Advisory Board, to finalise the details of the Housing Allocation Scheme following the consultation with the Registered Providers and other main stakeholders to be undertaken in March and April 2015.

In accordance with Paragraph 2 Annex 1 of the Executive Procedure Rules the Leader nominated the Cabinet Member for Economic Regeneration to take this decision in the absence of the Cabinet portfolio holder (Housing).