Issue - meetings

The Committee resolved:-

(i)             to approve the refreshed Housing Allocations Policy as detailed in Appendix 1; and

(ii)            to instruct the Chief Officer – Housing, to implement the revised Housing Allocations Policy.

With reference to article 8 of the minute of the meeting of 14 March 2023, the Committee had before it a report by the Chief Officer – Housing, which sought approval of the refreshed Housing Allocations Policy.

The report noted that as a social housing provider, the Council was required to comply with the legislative and regulatory framework governing the allocation of social rented housing. As such, the Council had a duty to make, and publish, a Housing Allocations Policy detailing how the allocation of homes, transfers, and exchanges would be allocated, and must clearly set out how it would determine an applicant’s priority for housing.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)          approve the refreshed Housing Allocations Policy as detailed in Appendix 1; and

(b)          instruct the Chief Officer – Housing to implement the revised Housing Allocations Policy.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.