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Decision Maker: Executive Councillor for Housing and Homelessness
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Progress report from Housing Regulation Panel, plus a copy of the Panel’s latest inspection report.
Matter for Decision.
To note the progress report from the Housing Regulation
Panel and also note the Panel’s latest inspection report on Estate Services.
Decision of the
Executive Councillor for Housing:
i.
Noted the positive outcomes achieved by the
residents’ Housing Regulation Panel in their fourth year of activity.
ii.
Noted the panel’s recommended improvements for
Estate Services (Appendix 4, page 5) of the Officer’s report.
iii.
Agreed to continue to support residents’
co-regulation and the constructive challenge provided by a residents’ Housing
Regulation Panel.
Scrutiny
Considerations.
This item was requested for pre-scrutiny.
The Committee received a report from the Chair of the Housing Regulation
Panel and the Resident Involvement Facilitator.
In response to the Committees’ comments, the Resident Involvement
Facilitator stated the following:
i.
40% of tenants and leaseholders were not online,
there was a similar picture nationally.
The Council offered a laptop loan scheme and also provided IT training
at community centres.
ii.
A pilot IT
training course had been run and the results would be reported back to
Committee in the future.
iii.
Confirmed that overgrown bushes on the pavements
would be cut back from 1 August 2015, as birds nesting had prevented this from
taking place sooner.
iv.
Agreed that the issue of communal gardens and the
problems that they brought would be addressed in the longer term.
v.
Council Officers were extremely responsive to
members of the Housing Regulation Panel which was seen as a partnership.
The Committee:
Resolved
unanimously to approve the recommendations.
The Executive Councillor for Housing approved the recommendations.
Conflicts of
Interest Declared by the Executive Councillor (and any Dispensations Granted).
No conflicts were declared by the Executive Councillor.
Publication date: 31/07/2015
Date of decision: 30/06/2015