37 Community Led Housing Fund Grant Policy and Project Group (01:04:00) PDF 80 KB
To receive a report from the Group Manager for Housing and Forward Planning Team Leader. The Homes PDG set up the Community Housing Fund Project Group in 2018 to consider requests made to the Council for financial support from the Community Housing Fund. There is a need to amend the membership of the Community Housing Fund Project Group to reflect that the Council’s housing enabling role has been moved from the Housing Service to the Planning Service.
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Minutes:
The Group had before it a report * from the Group Manager for Housing and the Forward Planning Team Leader. The contents of the report were outlined with reference to background and context of the Project Group.
It was explained that the Council had received a Community-Led Housing Fund grant of £131,359 of which £108,360 remained unallocated.
Discussion took place regarding:
· Possibly extending the membership of the Project Group to include the Chairman of the Homes Policy Development Group and one other member of the Group.
· The need for a Rural Housing Policy versus the mechanisms already in place to address this issue.
RECOMMENDED to the Cabinet that:
Section 11.1 of the Community-Led Housing Fund Guidance and Criteria (Appendix 2), which provides the framework for the allocation of grants, is amended so that the Community Housing Fund Project Group membership includes:
The Cabinet Member for Housing, the Cabinet Member for Planning and Economic Regeneration, the Group Manager for Housing Services, the Head of Planning, Economy and Regeneration and the Housing Enabling and Policy Officer.
(Proposed by Cllr C Eginton and seconded by Cllr R J Dolley)
Reason for the decision:
The Homes PDG had set up the Community Housing Fund Project Group in 2018 to consider requests made to the Council for financial support from the Community Housing Fund. There is a need to amend the membership of the Community Housing Fund Project Group to reflect that the Council’s housing enabling role has been moved from the Housing Service to the Planning Service.
Note: (i) * Report previously circulated; copy attached to the signed minutes.
(ii) A proposal to add the Chairman of the Policy Development Group and a member of the Group to the membership list of the project Group was not supported.
(iii) Cllr S Clist requested that his vote against the recommendation be recorded.