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Minutes:
This Item was
chaired by Diana Minns (Vice Chair / Tenant Representative)
Matter for
Decision
The report
provides an update on the Estates & Facilities Service Review and
information on compliance related work within the service, including a summary
on gas servicing, electrical testing, recent audit actions and fire safety.
Decision
of Executive Councillor for Housing
i.
Noted the
progress of the service review and compliance related work detailed within the
report.
ii.
Agreed that an update
report on the progress on the works to be brought to the September Housing
Scrutiny Committee.
Reason for the Decision
As set out in the Officer’s report. the progress of the service
review and compliance related work detailed within the report.
Any Alternative Options Considered and Rejected
Not applicable.
Scrutiny
Considerations
The Committee received a report from the Head of Housing
Maintenance and Assets.
The Head of Housing Maintenance and Assets said the following in response to Members’
questions:
i.
Confirmed that two council properties were non compliant with gas safety
certificates. This was a result of the occupants shielding. Those properties
would re visited as a priority as soon as the occupants felt comfortable with
other people inside their homes.
ii.
Fire Risk Assessments had been undertaken in
respect of a number of maisonettes that are above
ground floor level and necessary work identified would be undertaken as soon as
possible.
The Committee raised concerns regarding the recent fire at Kingsway
Flats. It was suggested that residents had reported problems with communal
lighting, lack of internal fire doors, communal alarms not working and blocked
stairwells. The Head of Housing Maintenance and Assets responded and stated
that the emergency lighting had been tested regularly and no faults had been
found. All tenanted flats entrance doors will
be replaced with fire doors that meeting current standards and orders
have already been placed with contractors. There was no requirement for a communal fire
alarm. The fire was under investigation and more information would be available
at a future date.
The Asset Manager stated that there was an on-going program
to install heat detectors. Additional funding is likely to be required as
this three-year programme also requires work to existing smoke detectors in
dwellings.
The Committee thanked housing staff for their prompt and caring approach
to rehousing victims of the fire.
Councillor Porrer
proposed and Diana Minns seconded an additional recommendation as follows:
That an update report on the progress on the
works to be brought to the September Housing Scrutiny Committee.
The Committee supported the additional
recommendation.
The Committee unanimously resolved to endorse the recommendations.
The Executive Councillor
approved the recommendations.
Conflicts of Interest Declared by the Executive Councillor (and any
Dispensations Granted)
No conflicts of interest
were declared by the Executive Councillor.