Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
The Cabinet will be asked to consider the HRA estimates and rent levels for Council properties for 2017/18, together with service and other related charges, to enable the delivery of efficient and effective services to the Council’s tenants and leaseholders for the forthcoming financial year.
The Cabinet resolved to:
(i) Agree that rents for all general needs secure, affordable and sheltered housing accommodation be reduced in line with the national rent reduction programme, from the average of £98.02 per week to £96.35 per week;
(ii) Agree that all new lettings, once a property becomes empty, be set at the target rent (minus 1% for each of the years that rents have been reduced by legislation) or the rent paid by the previous tenant, whichever is the higher;
(iii) Agree that service charges for tenants are frozen at 2016/17 levels;
(iv) Agree that charges for heating and hot water are frozen are frozen at 2016/17 levels;
(v) Agree that rents for stock used as temporary accommodation be set at 90% of the appropriate Local Housing Allowance (LHA);
(vi) Agree that service charges for hostels held in the General Fund are increased as set out in paragraph 2.7 of the report;
(vii) Agree that the above changes take effect on Monday 3 April 2017;
(viii) Approve the proposed HRA Capital Programme for 2017/18 as set out at Appendix 7 to the report;
(ix) Approve the HRA Business Plan as set out at Appendix 8 and the financial assessment at Appendix 9 to the report;
(x) Note the assumptions underpinning the HRA Business Plan which shall be reviewed annually; and
(xi) Approve the proposed commissioning intentions for 2017/18 as set out in Annex 1 to the HRA Business Plan.
Report author: John East
Publication date: 14/02/2017
Date of decision: 13/02/2017
Decided at meeting: 13/02/2017 - Cabinet
Effective from: 22/02/2017
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