Issue - meetings

Councillor Draycott will give a presentation on this item and also submits a report detailing the draft list of schemes proposed for funding from the Capital and Revenue Programmes for the financial year 2001/ 2002.  The report also includes criteria for Tier 2 / Community Associations to use in preparing bids for funds under the Capital Receipt Initiative – Neighbourhood Approach, under next years Housing Capital Programme. The Cabinet is recommended to approve the draft list of schemes listed in the report and the criteria for bids under the Capital Receipt Initiative – Neighbourhood Approach. 

Councillor Draycott introduced a presentation on the Housing Maintenance Programme and also submitted a report which detailed the draft list of schemes proposed for funding from the Capital and Revenue programmes for Housing Maintenance for the financial year 2001/2002.  The report also proposed criteria for Tier2/Community Associations to use in preparing bids for funds under the Capital Receipt Initiative - Neighbourhood Approach, under next year's Housing Capital Programme.  Councillor Draycott proposed an amendment to the programme detailed in the report, with regard to the City-wide New Starts Programme detailed on page 16 of the supporting information.  Councillor Draycott proposed that the two sums of money allocated for kitchen improvements and bathroom improvements should be combined and priority given to kitchen improvements.

RESOLVED:

(1)that the list of schemes for funding from the Capital and Revenue Programme for Housing Maintenance for the financial year 2001/02 detailed in the report, be approved, subject to the amendment of the City-wide New Starts Programme to merge the sums for kitchen improvements and bathroom improvements, priority to be given to kitchen improvements; and

(2)that the criteria for bids under the Capital Receipt Initiative - Neighbourhood Approach as detailed in Appendix A of the report, be approved.