Issue - meetings

Having considered an officer report, and a presentation by the Cabinet

Member for Housing, Councillor Paul Bell, the Mayor and Cabinet agreed that:

(1) the success of the Council’s Expression of Interest to the GLA Innovation

Fund and the Council’s submission to the Building Council Homes for

Londoners Fund be noted and that a further Mayor and Cabinet report

detailing commitment to invest be presented for approval in the future;

(2) authority be delegated for the negotiation and signing of funding terms and

conditions with the GLA to the Executive Director for Resources and

Regeneration on advice of the Head of Law;

(3) progress made towards the development of 3 new Precision Manufactured

Housing (PMH) schemes, including the soft market testing/intelligence

gathering exercises carried out to inform the Council’s strategy be noted;

(4) the Precision Manufactured Housing (PMH) procurement strategy set out

be approved;

(5) authority for the finalisation of the detail of the procurement process

(including the detailed approach, the shortlisting of bidders, etc) be delegated

to the Executive Director for Customer Services;

The Mayor received information about the national growth in possible

providers which had taken place since the Ladywell scheme was undertaken.

Councillor Barnham received an assurance that the educational land which

was at issue related to a former ball court that was no longer in use.

Having considered an officer report, and a presentation by the Cabinet

Member for Housing, Councillor Paul Bell, the Mayor and Cabinet, for the

reasons set out in the report, by a unanimous vote of 9-0:

RESOLVED that:

(1) the success of the Council’s Expression of Interest to the GLA Innovation

Fund and the Council’s submission to the Building Council Homes for

Londoners Fund be noted and that a further Mayor and Cabinet report

detailing commitment to invest be presented for approval in the future;

(2) authority be delegated for the negotiation and signing of funding terms and

conditions with the GLA to the Executive Director for Resources and

Regeneration on advice of the Head of Law;

(3) progress made towards the development of 3 new Precision Manufactured

Housing (PMH) schemes, including the soft market testing/intelligence

gathering exercises carried out to inform the Council’s strategy be noted;

(4) the Precision Manufactured Housing (PMH) procurement strategy set out

be approved;

(5) authority for the finalisation of the detail of the procurement process

(including the detailed approach, the shortlisting of bidders, etc) be delegated

to the Executive Director for Customer Services;