Issue - meetings

To consider recommendations of the Cabinet in respect of:

·         HRA Housing Delivery Framework – To introduce a HRA Housing Delivery Framework to inform future investment decisions for the HRA Capital Programme relating to housing development (Cabinet minute 18) (Cabinet agenda item 8).

Consideration was given to the report of Cabinet which sought approval for the Cabinet’s recommendations in respect of the HRA Housing Delivery Framework.  The report introduced a HRA Housing Delivery Framework to inform future investment decisions for the HRA Capital Programme relating to housing development.

The report was presented to the Council by the Portfolio Holder for HRA and Private Sector Housing.

The following point was made:

·         At section 6.6.3 or the report, second item in the table ‘Do we have the appropriate skillset in-house to deliver the range of different housing delivery models’ – was this statement presently correct and if not, what action did the Authority intend to take?

o   The Head of Delivery advised that, when the report had been written, the appropriate staff had been available. Since then, the Housing Development Programme Manager had left her post.  A recruitment process to fill this role was currently underway and, once this role was filled, the authority would again have the skill set required.

DECISION:

1)    That the HRA Housing Delivery Framework, at Appendix A to the report, which informs and guides future Executive decisions for the HRA Capital Programme for housing development, be approved;

2)    That the HRA Housing Delivery Framework be included as a local choice policy in the Council’s Policy Framework and that the Constitution, at Article 4.3 be amended accordingly; and

3)    That the Deputy Chief Executive (Corporate Development) and S151 be granted delegated authority, in consultation with the relevant Portfolio Holder, to negotiate, approve, enter into and sign grant agreements relating to grant allocations which have been approved by Council, Cabinet or Portfolio Holder relating to the delivery of homes for the HRA.