Issue details

Council intervention in the local Supported Housing Market to protect resident wellbeing

In response to local housing association divestment from the Supported Housing Market, this paper asks for approvals for property acquisition decisions to be delegated to the relevant Strategic Director in consultation with their Cabinet Member and the Strategic Director for Finance.

 

Reasons for urgency:

 

Properties are being sold during February and March 2023 hence the need for urgent decision.

 

Delegated approval will enable Council decision making to be sufficiently responsive and agile to a complex and varying set of factors informing each acquisition decision.

 

Delegated approval will enable the Council to work with the GLA in a short timeframe to secure any possible grant funding available.

 

Decision type: Key

Reason Key: Expenditure/Income over £5m & policies or new income, reserves use, overspend over £300K;

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Wards affected: (All Wards);

Notice of proposed decision first published: 06/02/2023

Reason for urgency:
Properties are being sold during February and March 2023 hence the need for urgent decision.

Delegated approval will enable Council decision making to be sufficiently responsive and agile to a complex and varying set of factors informing each acquisition decision.

Delegated approval will enable the Council to work with the GLA in a short timeframe to secure any possible grant funding available.

Report access: Open report with exempt appendix;

Report Type: Key Decision;

Decision due: February 2023 by Leader of the Council

Lead member: Cabinet Member for Children and Education (expired July 2024)

Lead director: Director Children's Services

Department: Children's Services Department

Contact: Lesley Bell Email: Lesley.Bell@lbhf.gov.uk, Sophie Veitch Email: sophie.veitch@lbhf.gov.uk Tel: 07876855124, Jonathan Skaife Email: Jonathan.Skaife@lbhf.gov.uk.

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