Issue - meetings

This item was chaired by Diana Minns (Vice Chair / Tenant Representative).

 

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 thanked Mr Best and the members of the Housing Regulation Panel for all the hard work they undertook during the year and for the high standard of the HRP reports

 

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.