Agenda item

*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.

The Service Director – Housing presented a report seeking approval for the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) Capital Programme for 2021/22, and provisionally for 2022/23 through to 2025/26.

The overall financing strategy continued to focus on maintaining the Council’s housing stock at the Decent Homes Standard, improving the non-traditional housing stock, delivering improvements to estate environments and building or acquiring new council housing.

Many of the programmes for 2021/22 had already been procured in 2020/21 to ensure timely delivery including the central heating programme to remove the risk of large-scale heating failures, the roof replacement programme, the replacement of aging UPVC windows and external wall insulation, and external work to blocks of flats.

The new build housing programme would continue at Brockwell Court and additional new sites had been identified at Markham Court, Middlecroft and Westwood Avenue.

*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.