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Issue - meetings
Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery
Meeting: 05/10/2020 - Cabinet (Item 278)
278 Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery PDF 181 KB
(Andrew Palmer, Assistant Director Housing & Built Environment)
Decision:
1. Cabinet agree that Hastings Borough Council be the lead local authority in the East Sussex Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery bid and sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
2. Cabinet agree entering into partnership funding agreements with East Sussex County Council and Optivo for the delivery of the East Sussex Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery fund.
3. Delegated power is provided to the Assistant Director Housing and Built Environment to amend the funding payable to East Sussex County Council and Optivo in the event the grant made by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is different than identified in the application.
Minutes:
The Assistant Director, Housing and Built Environment, presented a report to agree that Hastings Borough Council be the lead local authority in the East Sussex Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery bid and sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
A first round bid to the Green Homes Grant fund was submitted by Hastings Borough Council on behalf of East Sussex local authorities and Optivo housing association. The total value of the bid was £912,714. In addition, project partners are also contributing their own resources to the project bringing the total value to £1,357,656.
For homes in the private sector (owner occupiers and private rented tenant) the installations will be delivered through the East Sussex County Council commissioned Warm Homes Check Service and for homes in the socially rented sector they will be delivered directly by Optivo housing association. The proposed breakdown of tenures is 51% owner occupied homes, 9% private rented accommodation and 40% Optivo homes.
The project proposes to install over 400 energy efficiency measures in 125 homes across East Sussex, saving households an average of £395 per year in fuel bills.
Councillor Batsford proposed approval of the recommendations seconded by Councillor Evans.
RESOLVED (unanimously) that:
1. Cabinet agree that Hastings Borough Council be the lead local authority in the East Sussex Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery bid and sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
2. Cabinet agree entering into partnership funding agreements with East Sussex County Council and Optivo for the delivery of the East Sussex Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery fund.
3. Delegated power is provided to the Assistant Director Housing and Built Environment to amend the funding payable to East Sussex County Council and Optivo in the event the grant made by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is different than identified in the application.
Reasons:
1. As the lead authority in the Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery funding bid for East Sussex any successful bid funding will be made to Hastings Borough Council. To receive the funding Hastings Borough Council is required to sign a memorandum of understanding with BEIS.
2. In order to deliver the project Hastings Borough Council needs to enter into funding agreements with the two main delivery partners in the bid (East Sussex County Council and Optivo housing association)
3. If the grant made by BEIS is different than the original application the funding provided to ESCC and Optivo will need to be re-calculated and the agreements amended as necessary.
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