Issue - meetings

Councillor Westley submits a report that recommends changes to the Housing Allocations Policy, in light of new statutory guidance issued by The Department of Communities and Local Government (CLG), to improve transparency and to simplify the Council’s Policy. Cabinet is recommended to introduce a banding scheme (Appendix 1), and makes other changes to the policy as set out in paragraph 6.2 of this report, for the allocation of social rented housing in Leicester.

A minute extract from the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board held on 3 March 2011 will be circulated as soon as it is available.

Councillor Westley submitted a report that recommended changes to the Housing Allocations Policy, in light of new statutory guidance issued by the Department of Communities and Local Government (CLG), to improve transparency and to simplify the Council’s Policy.

He explained that this would replace the point based system and would simplify the process as the majority of applications would be determined instead by the length of time they had been on the registration list. 

Councillor Westley stated that the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board had considered the report and had endorsed its recommendations.

RESOLVED:

that Cabinet approves that Council introduces a banding scheme (as detailed in Appendix 1 of the report), and makes other changes to the policy as set out in paragraph 6.2 of the report, for the allocation of social rented housing in Leicester.