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Councillor Draycott submits a report seeking approval to the Housing Revenue Account Business Plan 2001.

The full text of the Business Plan is available to Councillors in the Members’ Library.  Copies can also be obtained from Rod Pearson, Housing Department Tel No. 252 7108

Councillor Draycott submitted a report seeking approval to the Housing Revenue Account Business Plan 2001.  It was noted that the Business Plan covered the management and maintenance of the Council's housing stock over the next 30 years and given this long timescale included a number of assumptions.

Councillor Draycott referred to two issues that had been raised by the Chair of the Housing Scrutiny Committee.  One was in reference to the demolition of 250 properties in Braunstone which was referred to in the Business Plan.  It was acknowledged that the Cabinet had agreed to put this demolition on hold whilst negotiations continued with the Braunstone Community Association on possible alternative options; however it was not considered necessary to amend the Business Plan at this stage as the results of these negotiations were not yet known.  If, in the event a different route to demolition was taken, the document could be amended when it was reviewed in 12 months time.  The second issue was with regard to the installation of UPVC doors, the policy on which was clarified by Councillor Draycott.

It was also noted that the Business Plan had to be submitted to the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions by 31 July 2001 and therefore the Cabinet was asked to agree to allow no objection to the decision in order to meet this deadline.

RESOLVED:

(1)that the Housing Revenue Account Business Plan 2001 be approved; and

(2)that, in accordance with Standing Order 42(e), as the Business Plan had to be submitted to the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions, jointly with the Housing Investment Programme Strategy, by the end of July, it be agreed that the Business Plan was a matter of such urgency that no objection may be allowed to this decision.