Decision details

Received a report setting out the background to the Government’s initiatives on the decent homes target, the appraisal process and the project plan that has been developed to accomplish the appraisal. 

Agreed, in order to ensure that a robust appraisal process is delivered within the timescales set by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and which will engage with tenants, Members and other stakeholders, to:

1. The proposals to progress the appraisal process;

2. Set up the Housing Futures Forum, as a sub group of the Barking and Dagenham Partnership, which will include the Executive portfolio holders for ‘Housing, Health and Social Care’ and ‘Regeneration’; and

3. The Chair of the Scrutiny Management Board to nominate a Member to sit on the Housing Futures Forum in place of the ‘Scrutiny Member’ referred to in section 4 of the report.