Issue - meetings

To consider a report on Local Authority Housing Fund Residential Acquisitions.

The Committee received a report from the Group Head – Assets on the acquisition of further properties from the Local Authority Housing Fund.

The Committee resolved to agree to the recommendations set out in the report.

Committee is asked to approve the recommendations as outlined in the report.

The report is considered urgent because to be eligible for the grant funding the properties need to be acquired before end of November.

This report contains exempt information within the meaning of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985 and by the Local Government (Access to information) (Variation) Order 2006 Paragraph 3 – Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) and in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information because, disclosure to the public would prejudice the financial position of the authority in any contract or other type of negotiation with a supplier, who could then know the position of the Council. 

Committee resolved to agree the acquisition of seven residential properties as part of the Department of Levelling Up of Housing and Communities partnership arrangement for Afghan and Ukraine refugee families.