Agenda item

To approve the Council’s Housing Revenue Account Budget for the Financial Year 2010/2011. The Cabinet met on 10^th February 2010.  The Cabinet met on 10^th February 2010.  The attached report on the Housing Revenue Account – Rents and Charges 2010/2011 was considered at the meeting. 

Minute 101 of the Cabinet refers (Pages xxx – xxx).

            The Council considered (a) a joint report of the Cabinet Member for Health, Housing and Adult Social Care and the Director of Housing and Leisure concerning the proposed Housing Revenue Account for 2010/11, (b) Minute 101 of the Cabinet, and (c) noted that the views of the Housing Advisory Forum had been considered by the Cabinet at its meeting held on 10^th February 2010, and reported orally to the Council by the Cabinet Member for Health, Housing and Adult Social Care.

Councillor David Renard moved and Councillor Mark Edwards seconded:

(a) The proposed average rent for Housing Revenue Account (HRA) dwellings for 2010/11 be £69.22 per week (48 week basis), which is an increase of 2.16%, as set out in Appendix 2 to the joint report of the Cabinet Member for Health, Housing and Adult Social Care and the Director of Housing and Leisure and it be noted that this is in accordance with the Government’s rent restructuring policy.

(b) Housing related support charges for 2010/11 and service charges for 2010/11 be as set out in Appendices 5 - 9 in the joint report of the Cabinet Member for Health, Housing and Adult Social Care and the Director of Housing and Leisure

(c) A project be set-up to review the unpooling of Service Charges with a view to report findings to the Housing Advisory Forum in January 2011.

(d) Leaseholder Service Charges for 2010/11 be as set out in Appendix 10 to the joint report of the Cabinet Member for Health, Housing and Adult Social Care and the Director of Housing and Leisure.

(e) Garage Rents, Parking Charges and Cross Over Charges for 2010/11 be as set out in Appendix 11 and Appendix 12 to the joint report of the Cabinet Member for Health, Housing and Adult Social Care and the Director of Housing and Leisure.

(f) That the views expressed by the Housing Advisory Forum as updated orally by the Cabinet Member for Health, Housing and Adult Social Care be noted.

(g) Based on the proposals set out within to the joint report of the Cabinet Member for Health, Housing and Adult Social Care and the Director of Housing and Leisure the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) proposed budget 2011/12, be as set out in Appendix 13 of the joint report, and that the Housing Revenue Account Repairs Budget and Funding be as set out in Appendix 14 of the joint report.

(h) Rents charged on General Fund properties be increased by the average rent increase for Housing Reveue Account Dwellings (2.16%) and the Rents and Charges for the David Murray John Apartments, as shown in Appendix 15, to the joint report of the Cabinet Member for Health, Housing and Adult Social Care and the Director of Housing and Leisure.

(i) Rents charged for plots at the Hay Lane Residential Gypsy Site be increased by £1.00 per week to £39.00 per week (52 week basis) and the rents for workpens, as set out in Appendix 16 to the joint report of the Cabinet Member for Health, Housing and Adult Social Care and the Director of Housing and Leisure.

(j) Homelessness contributions be increased as outlined in paragraphs 2.69-2.70 to the joint report of the Cabinet Member for Health, Housing and Adult Social Care and the Director of Housing and Leisure.

The Motion was put to the vote and declared carried.