Decision details

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

The report provided an update on a number of areas related to temporary accommodation, including proposals to extend the pilot Landlord Incentive Scheme, the progress of the Pembury Road project and a proposed approach to future property opportunities.

Following consideration by the Communities and Housing Advisory Board, the Cabinet Member for Housing resolved that:

(1)             the pilot Landlord Incentive Scheme be extended for an additional 6 months (as set out in 1.3.4 of the report);

(2)             the progress on the Pembury Road temporary accommodation project be noted and the proposed Member engagement approach (as set out in 1.4.3 of the report) be endorsed; and

(3)             the proposed approach to future temporary accommodation related property opportunities, as outlined in the report, be endorsed and that it be noted that these proposals would form part of a wider report to the Finance, Innovation and Property Advisory Board in due course.