Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Housing Needs and Resources Manager regarding a request for additional revenue funding from Granta Housing Association to increase housing units at  Coneygear Court, Huntingdon.

Agreed to support a bid from Granta Housing Association for capital funding from the housing corporation to extend Coneygear Court and approved a transfer of funds from the housing benefit budget to the homelessness budget to finance the increased revenue funding of the scheme.

A report by the Head of Housing Services was submitted (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) outlining a bid by the Granta Housing Association for capital funding from the Housing Corporation to provide an additional six units of accommodation for homeless people at Coneygear Court, Huntingdon.

In considering a request from Granta for an increase in the level of revenue funding from the Council to finance additional staffing posts required to support the increase in accommodation, Executive Councillors expressed the view that the additional costs of £30,000 should properly be met from within the Government’s Supporting People budget.  However, given the limited funds available and in noting the pressures in the District for this type of accommodation, the Cabinet

RESOLVED

  (a)  that the bid from Granta Housing Association for capital funding from the housing corporation to provide an additional six units of accommodation at Coneygear Court be supported; and

  (b)  that a transfer of funds from the housing benefit budget to the homelessness budget to finance the increased revenue funding of the scheme be approved.