Issue details

To outline the proposed programme for the remainder of 2025/26 and into 2026/27 in line with the following Executive June and October 2025 decisions and delegations: Housing Delivery Update Report – Executive October 2025.

28. In order to deliver the aspirations set out in the Walmgate Improvement Plan funding sources may include the Neighbourhood Investment Programme,, as described in the Housing Landlord Annual Report at June's Executives Meeting:

The HRA budget includes a £170k annual capital budget for investing into estates. This Neighbourhood Investment Programme will deliver improvements to the areas around Council homes. The primary focus of the funds will be:

Building community capacity to co-manage shared spaces.

Support wider estate regeneration work, for example supporting the Groves Neighbourhood Plan objectives and supporting the development of neighbourhood plans in other areas.

Supporting measures to reduce ASB, for example through new lighting, security gates and the closing off of unsafe passageways.

Improving communal areas around council houses and apartments, such as improving hard standing areas, tree and shrub planting, and enabling community and resident acidity.

This will funding will not be used for building repair tasks, this work will be funded from general repair budgets.
This report recommends to Executive that the decision making for the future allocation of Neighbourhood Improvement Programme (NIP) funding is delegated to the Director of Housing and Communities in consultation with the Executive Member for Housing, Planning and Community Safety to support projects such as those outlined in Walmgate Improvement Plan.

The Executive/ Executive Member will be asked to approve the Neighbourhood Improvement Programme 2025/27