Issue - meetings

This reports sets out the legal requirements for the Council to have an adopted Tenancy Strategy for social rented properties for the City. Cabinet are asked to adopt the draft tenancy strategy attached to the report.

RESOLVED:       That Cabinet agree to Option 1, to adopt the Tenancy Strategy as set out in Annex 1 of the report.

REASON:           The strategy takes into account the views of key stakeholders, including local social landlords and seeks to utilise the new freedoms and flexibilities offered by the Localism Act to address housing needs.  It is a requirement for the local authority to have a tenancy strategy.

Members considered a report which confirmed the requirement in the Localism Act 2011 for Local Authorities to publish a tenancy strategy for social rented properties by the end of January 2013.

The draft Strategy (attached at Annex 1 of the report) had been prepared following consultation with a wide range of people and organisations and although intended to last for 5 years it was proposed to provide an annual review.

Consideration was given to the following options with an analysis of each being set out at paragraphs 5 to 14 of the report:

Option one – To adopt the strategy as set out in Annex 1.

Option two – To ask officers to revise the document

The Cabinet Member reported further on the new ways of working and the issues arising.

Following further discussion it was

RESOLVED:       That Cabinet agree to Option 1, to adopt the Tenancy Strategy as set out in Annex 1 of the report. ^1.

REASON:            The strategy takes into account the views of key stakeholders, including local social landlords and seeks to utilise the new freedoms and flexibilities offered by the Localism Act to address housing needs.  It is a requirement for the local authority to have a tenancy strategy.