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Housing Delivery Plan
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
Seek approval to adopt and implement
Bristol’s Housing Delivery Plan: a new strategic plan to
enable the delivery of new homes, with recommendations to implement
changes and draw on funding to better facilitate the delivery of
the target of 2000 new homes a year – 800 affordable, setting
over-arching principles, targets and methods for
delivery.
Decision:
1. Approved that Bristol City Council’s Housing Delivery Plan be adopted and implemented
2. Approved the list of Priority Actions and Sites proposed in Appendix 2, to be taken forward for development in 2017/18.
3. Delegated authority to the Strategic Director Place, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Homes and Communities, to agree amendments to the 2017/18 priority sites development work, to manage unforeseen development delays and ensure the overall delivery programme remains on target.
4. Approved the expenditure for the following activities in support of the housing delivery plan:
a) Delegated authority to the Strategic Director Place, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Homes and Communities, to approve the Affordable Housing Funding Policy and authorise associated grant funding payments to Homes West Bristol Registered Providers (including those in excess of £0.5m) to support the delivery of affordable housing. A total of £9m capital expenditure in 2017/18 is approved for grant funding, increasing to £12m per annum for the four year 2018/19 to 2021/22.
b) Authorised the Strategic Director Place, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Homes and Communities, to: submit outline planning permission on council owned sites for housing development; and to procure a multi-disciplinary consultancy team, through either an OJEU competitive process or compliant framework, to carry out pre development work - £3.7m of capital expenditure in 2017/18, £2.5m in 2018/19 and £1m per annum for the three years 2019/20 to 2021/22 is requested to be approved for this.
c) Build capacity in the Housing Delivery Team through the recruitment of additional staff. Recurrent annual capital expenditure of £0.857m is requested to be approved for this along with £0.6m of revenue expenditure (funds included within the 2017/18 budget approved at Full Council 21 February 2017).
Report author: Sarah Spicer
Publication date: 07/03/2017
Date of decision: 07/03/2017
Decided at meeting: 07/03/2017 - Cabinet
Effective from: 15/03/2017
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