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Housing Renewal Financial Assistance Policy
Meeting: 10/07/2017 - Cabinet (Item 4)
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(Cabinet Decision)
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The Assistant Director, Housing and Built Environment, presented the revised Housing Renewal Financial Assistance Policy. The draft policy set out the financial tools available to the council for providing housing renewal help to households in the Borough.
The government recently announced increased funding to the Better Care Fund, which is used for Disabled Facility Grant (DFG) allocations. The allocation for Disabled Facilities Grants in 2017/18 was £1,543,547.
Local authorities across East Sussex have been working in partnership with the county council and Clinical Commissioning Groups East Sussex Better Together to utilise discretionary powers under the Regulatory Reform Order. The draft policy was sufficiently flexible to enable the council to support innovative projects to improve the lives of disabled residents.
Councillor Batsford proposed approval of the recommendations to the Assistant Director, Housing and Built Environment’s report, which was seconded by Councillor Beaney.
RESOLVED (unanimously) that:
1. Cabinet approve the revised Housing Renewal Financial Assistance Policy 2017-2020, and;
2. Delegated authority is given to the Assistant Director, Housing and Built Environment, in consultation with the Housing and Leisure Portfolio Holder to introduce and develop new types of assistance that enable existing and new sources of funding to be targeted at eligible clients
The reason for this decision was:
In order to provide financial assistance for housing renewal the council must have an adopted policy.
To be able to respond promptly to new freedoms provided by the provision of Disabled Facilities Grant funding through the Better care Fund delegated authority is requested to develop and adopt new funding tools.
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