Issue - meetings

To consider the proposed delegation of amendments to legal agreements considered by Area Committees in respect of affordable housing tenure.

The Committee considered a report regarding the proposed delegation of amendments to legal agreements considered by Area Committees in respect of affordable housing tenure.

Applications subject to legal agreements involving the provision of affordable housing had increasingly been brought back to Committee with requests for changes to the affordable housing tenure, causing a delay in the decision-making process.  The proposed delegation would allow negotiations in respect of legal agreements to progress to signing, enabling development works to commence in a timely fashion and assisting in delivering the 5 year housing land supply for the Borough.

RESOLVED

(a)  That authority be delegated to the Development Management and Building Control Manager, in consultation with firstly the Chairman of the Area Planning Committee (depending on which committee passed the original resolution to approve) and secondly with the Strategic Housing and Development Manager, to amend, where necessary, any resolution relating to the provision of affordable housing to allow for variations between social rented and affordable rented tenures and between the various types of intermediate tenure such as shared ownership, shared equity and discount for sale instead of the original resolution.

(b)  That such a delegation pertain until such time as a new local plan is adopted.

That, for the avoidance of doubt, this delegation does not extend to variations from rented (social or affordable) to intermediate tenure or vice versa.