Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Housing Services regarding proposed changes to the Council’s Housing Renewal Assistance Policy.

Approved three proposed amendments to the Council’s Housing Renewal Assistance Policy relating to exempt disposal, disabled facilities top up assistance and the determination of a loan or grant for repairs assistance and requested that the Cabinet’s concerns over the legality of the Regulatory Reform (Housing Assistance) Order be made to the Members of Parliament for the Huntingdon and North West Cambridgeshire Constituencies

Consideration was given to a report by the Head of Housing Services (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) which outlined three proposed amendments to the Council’s Housing Renewal Assistance Policy relating to exempt disposal, where the repayment of loans would not be required, disabled facilities “top up” assistance and the determination of a loan or grant for repairs assistance.

In discussing the amendments proposed, Executive Councillors expressed some apprehension about the potential for anomalies, particularly where grants in excess of £25,000 were made for adaptations to a home of a family member or relative who was not the disabled person and in those circumstances it was -

RESOLVED

(a)  that the proposed amendments to the Housing Renewal Assistance Policy as outlined in the report now submitted be approved; and

(b)  that appropriate representations be made to the Members of Parliament for the Huntingdon and North West Cambridgeshire Constituencies regarding concerns about the anomalies now referred to.