Decision details

*RESOLVED –

That it be recommended to Full Council that:

1.    The revised Housing Capital Programme for 2021/22 be approved.

2.    The Housing Capital Programme for 2022/23 and procurement, as necessary, be approved.

3.    The provisional Housing Capital Programmes for 2023/24 to 2026/27 be approved.

4.    The in-house delivery share of the Housing Capital Programme be approved.

5.    The Service Directors – Housing and Finance be authorised to vire between programmes and budgets to manage the Capital Programme, as set out in the officer’s report.

6.    The purchase and implementation of a new asset management system be approved.

REASONS FOR DECISIONS

1.    The Council, as a social landlord, has a legal duty to ensure that all its properties are fully compliant and maintained to Decent Homes standards.

2.    Following the publication of the Social Housing White Paper it will be a requirement that the Regulator of Social Housing undertakes audits on landlord compliance which will require the Council to have a suitable asset management system in place that can satisfy the requirements of the regulator.