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Joint Core Strategy (JCS) Affordable Housing Partnership Review

Meeting: 11/03/2020 - Cabinet (Item 121)

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To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Strategy briefing Members and seeking approval for the continuation of the Joint Core Strategy Affordable Housing Partnership and to allow for a review of the current list of Preferred Registered Providers delivering homes in the strategic allocations sites of the Joint Core Strategy area.

 

Decision:

RESOLVED that:

 

(1) the existing Affordable Housing Partnership with Cheltenham Borough Council and Tewkesbury Borough Council set up to oversee the delivery of affordable homes across the Strategic Allocation Sites within the Joint Core Strategy area over the JCS Plan Period be continued.

 

(2) the City Council review the existing list of Preferred Providers of Affordable Housing, inviting current Preferred Providers and other Registered Providers to bid to become a Preferred Provider for a period of up to 5 years from November 2020 across the Strategic Allocation Sites within the Joint Core Strategy Area jointly with Cheltenham Borough Council and Tewkesbury Borough Council

 

(3) future arrangements to review the list of Preferred Providers be delegated to the Head of Place in consultation with the cabinet member for Planning and Housing Strategy.

 

(4) authority be delegated to the Head of Place in consultation with the cabinet member for Planning and Housing Strategy to:

 

a)evaluate and select Preferred Providers for the delivery and/or management of new affordable housing on the Strategic Allocation Sites noting that the selection will be carried out jointly with Cheltenham Borough Council and Tewkesbury Borough Councils

 

b)  agree changes to the Terms of Reference of the partnership and the Memorandum of Understanding between the Councils and the Preferred Providers to take effect from November 2020 and to make any other changes to necessary and

 

c)  make further operational decisions in relation to the Affordable Housing Partnership including whether or not to allow or invite other Registered Providers (RPs) to become a Preferred Provider during the 5 year period referred to in recommendation (2).

 

 

Minutes:

Cabinet considered the report of the Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Strategy that briefed Members and sought approval for the continuation of the Joint Core Strategy Affordable Housing Partnership and to allow for a review of the current list of Preferred Registered Providers delivering homes in the strategic allocations sites of the Joint Core Strategy area.

 

The Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Strategy reminded Members that meeting affordable housing needs required not just buildings but the right management so that people can be helped, their wellbeing improved and social value added.  He emphasised the importance of ensuring that the right policies were in place to deliver the best for people who needed affordable housing. The Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods referred to recent work done to drive up housing standards in Gloucester and commented on the serious consequences to people of having the wrong providers.  The Cabinet Member for Environment informed Members that he had been impressed by the actions of certain individuals in Kingsway and advised them that it was individuals not just companies that made good practice.  The Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Strategy further advised that he had visited housing in Bristol designed to `passive house’ principles with negligible heating costs to tenants.  He confirmed that innovations in both public and private rental housing to tackle climate change were being considered for inclusion in the Climate Change Road Map (agenda item 7).  The Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods noted that social value benefits could be included in the Social Value Policy (agenda item 8) and toolkit.

 

RESOLVED that:

 

(1) the existing Affordable Housing Partnership with Cheltenham Borough Council and Tewkesbury Borough Council set up to oversee the delivery of affordable homes across the Strategic Allocation Sites within the Joint Core Strategy area over the JCS Plan Period be continued.

 

(2) the City Council review the existing list of Preferred Providers of Affordable Housing, inviting current Preferred Providers and other Registered Providers to bid to become a Preferred Provider for a period of up to 5 years from November 2020 across the Strategic Allocation Sites within the Joint Core Strategy Area jointly with Cheltenham Borough Council and Tewkesbury Borough Council

 

(3) future arrangements to review the list of Preferred Providers be delegated to the Head of Place in consultation with the cabinet member for Planning and Housing Strategy.

 

(4) authority be delegated to the Head of Place in consultation with the cabinet member for Planning and Housing Strategy to:

 

a)  evaluate and select Preferred Providers for the delivery and/or management of new affordable housing on the Strategic Allocation Sites noting that the selection will be carried out jointly with Cheltenham Borough Council and Tewkesbury Borough Councils

 

b)  agree changes to the Terms of Reference of the partnership and the Memorandum of Understanding between the Councils and the Preferred Providers to take effect from November 2020 and to make any other changes to necessary and

 

c)  make further operational decisions in relation to the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 121