Decision details

To acknowledge and accept the grant allocation; update budgets and put in place the necessary arrangements for the grant to be spent.

1. The £5,732,724 grant allocation and necessary match funding is acknowledged.
2. The grant allocation is accepted and the associated spend and delivery outcomes are authorised.

3.    Assistant Director – Housing will enter into any contracts or funding agreements necessary to enable delivery of the project

1.    To enable the grant allocation to be accepted, the project to be delivered, and the benefits realised.

2.    To authorise the Assistant Director – Housing to enter into necessary grant funding agreements and other contracts to enable the works on the properties

Do nothing – In this event the grant would not be accepted and SHDC would not receive the £5.7m contribution towards improving the energy efficiency of the existing housing stock. SHDC would have to meet the Government target relating to social housing stock achieving at least an EPC C rating by 2030, without this grant funding.