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Decision details

Housing Garage Sites Report 2018

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decisions:

Housing Services were reviewing the usage of Council-owned Housing Revenue Account (‘HRA’) garage sites across the entire estate. The review focused on anti-social behaviour hotspots (‘ASB’) and garage account

arrears.

 

The report set out the background and recommendation for Committee to direct a formal scoping exercise in relation to the above. A formal exercise would allow for a more focussed, systemic and transparent approach to service provision and revenue protection.

 

A motion was MOVED by Cllr Hossack and SECONDED by Cllr Poppy to approve the recommendations in the report.

 

A vote was taken by a show of hands and it was RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY:

 

1.    That Housing Services undertakes a formal scoping exercise for a full report to be submitted to the next Community, Health and Housing Committee.

 

2.    That the Committee formally notes the statistical headline data relating to garage sites (Appendix A of the report).

 

Reasons for Recommendation:

Option 1 was recommended as the most transparent for the Council and fully supported  the existing ASB and income-protection strategies. It would allow for a more detailed assessment of how garage sites could be utilised to maximise opportunities for asset development, parking and housing across the Borough.

 

The scoping exercise would feed into current specific site developments, as well as the wider corporate asset work being undertaken as part of the wholly-owned company (Seven Arches Investments Limited) and Joint Venture  Partnership.

 

Taking no further action would fail to advance corporate priorities and would be counter to our modernisation programme.

Report author: Angela Abbott

Publication date: 10/07/2018

Date of decision: 03/07/2018

Decided at meeting: 03/07/2018 - Community, Health and Housing Committee

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