Issue - decisions

The Committee resolved:-

(i)             to request that the Chief Officer – Housing, provide information to members by way of email, in regards to the various tenants groups and providing details on frequency of their meetings, as well as how members are recruited;

(ii)            to note the progress made by the Housing Board from December 2024 to May 2025;

(iii)          to endorse the amended Plan available in Appendix A;

(iv)          to instruct the Housing Board to present an amended and measurable Improvement Plan for approval as part of the Housing Board Bi-Annual Report in November 2025;  

(v)           to note the key data summary available in Appendix B;

(vi)          to note the Terms of Reference for the Cross Party Working Group available in Appendix C;

(vii)         to welcome the findings of the Aberdeen Tenant Service Review Group available in Appendix D;

(viii)       to instruct the Chief Officer - Housing to work with the Aberdeen Tenant Service Review Group to positively respond to the findings of their review and report progress against tenant recommendations through a subsequent Housing Board Bi-Annual Report;

(ix)          to approve the arranged access procedure available in Appendix E in relation to Electrical Installation Condition Report inspections to ensure that all Council owned properties comply with necessary health and safety checks;

(x)           to instruct the Chief Officer - Housing to implement the Quality Improvement Framework available in Appendix F; 

(xi)          to instruct the Chief Officer Housing to evaluate the impact of the Quality Improvement Framework on an annual basis and present an updated Framework to Committee for approval within one calendar year as part of the May Housing Board Bi-Annual Report;

(xii)         to note the homeless benchmarking summary report available in Appendix G; and

(xiii)       to note the resource planning assumptions issued by Scottish Government on 18 March 2025 for the affordable housing supply programme in 2025/26;