Decision details

(i)  To agree to bring forward into 2011/12 £190,000 from the 2012/13 unallocated Decent Homes provision in order to provide a budget to carry out decent homes work to void dwellings

(ii)  To approve, in accordance with Financial Procedure Rules, spending on the following schemes

1. Including sums in a Capital Programme does not give authority to spend the money.  This is done by a separate scheme approval process. Financial Procedure Rules require that all schemes with a total estimated cost of more than £500,000 be approved by Cabinet before they can proceed.
2.  Schemes with an estimated cost of up to £500,000 can be approved by an Executive Director following consultation with appropriate officers and Cabinet Members.  Within this, schemes over £200,000 will usually require a formal report, decision making meeting and decision notice.  It has been decided to include all schemes that currently need spending approval in a single report

1. There have been various consultation meetings with tenants’ groups and leaseholders during the last 6 months with regard to the proposed programme of capital expenditure associated with the Housing Revenue Account (HRA).  The 2007 HRA Business Plan also supports the types of programmes of work highlighted above as meeting our long term strategy and this has once again been supported by all parties who expressed support for schemes of work at this time.
2. The alternative option of not undertaking this work would leave the council’s homes and surrounding areas in their present condition and would not accord with the views expressed during the consultation process or with the Council’s policies of providing homes of a Decent Homes Standard to all tenants.