Issue - meetings

Resolved: the committee noted the report and to receive further detail about the information on community-led housing available on the council’s website.

Jeff Endean (Housing Strategy and Programmes Manager) introduced the report. The following key points were noted:

7.1       In the last administration the committee carried out a review of alternative models of housing delivery and made four recommendations.

7.2       The council is continuing to support community-led development through the two schemes previously agreed. In the future this is likely to be focused on enabling community groups to find their own sites or to work with private developers.

 7.3      One of the community-led housing groups in the borough, RUSS, now has planning consent for a school of community-led housing to be built on the Church Grove site.

7.4       The committee queried, in relation to recommendation 3 of the committee’s review, whether information on community-led housing will be made available from the council’s website.

7.5       The council will continue to develop the information on its website about community-led housing as part of the review of its website.

7.6       The council is also continuing to deliver the joint venture development at Besson Street and will monitor the project’s success, but the current focus is on building as much council housing as possible.

7.7       The council will bring forward in March a plan of all the sites it will develop to deliver 1,000 new council homes.

Resolved: the committee noted the report and to receive further detail about the information on community-led housing available on the council’s website.