Decision details

That:

1. the Assistant Director – Housing is designated as the “Responsible Person for compliance with the consumer standards”.   

2. the Housing Property Services Manager is designated as the “Health and Safety Lead”, responsible for compliance with landlord health and safety on behalf of the Council.  

3. the Portfolio Holder for Communities and Operational Housing delegates responsibility to the Assistant Director - Housing to allow this role to be delegated to another Housing Manager on a temporary basis, in situations such as absence or where the post becomes vacant. 

4. the Chief Executive of South Holland District Council is designated as the “Responsible Person for fire safety”. 

5. the “Responsible Person for fire safety” delegates the duties and actions associated to fire safety within the Housing Landlord Service to Assistant Director – Housing.  The Assistant Director is responsible for utilising recourses available to them to fulfil this function.  

6. the Assistant Director - Housing is designated as theAccountable Person for Higher-Risk Residential Buildings.  

7. the Business Support Manager is designated as the Lead Officer for Housing Complaints.

8. the Portfolio Holder – Communities and Operational Housing is designated as the Member Responsible for (Housing) Complaints.

To ensure that the Council is compliant with the consumer standards in its role as a registered provider.

Not to appoint individuals as roles for Health and Safety Lead and Person Responsible for Compliance with the Consumer Standards, in which case the Council will not to be compliant with the Regulator of Social Housing’s Consumer Standards.

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