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Grant Payments to United Communitoes, 194 Luckwell Rd, Bedminster, BS3 3HE

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Decision Maker: Executive Director: Growth and Regeneration

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

The Mayor of Bristol has set out the objective of delivering 2,000 new homes per year, of which 800 should be affordable, by 2020.
In response to this the Council has established a new Housing Delivery Team, a single multi-function team that will deliver homes through a number of routes including, making grant available to Registered Providers (RPs) to deliver affordable homes for rent. This is the ninth round of grant funding by the Council under a new delegated authority scheme agreed by Cabinet on 7th March 2017.

Decision:

Approve the total grant allocation to United Communities of £3,055,000 for 47 affordable rent units from the Affordable Housing funding budget.

Alternative options considered:

Option 1 -All of the grant proposals from Registered Providers (including this one) were assessed by an Officer Panel and moderated through ProContract under the guidance of Procurement

Publication date: 23/01/2020

Date of decision: 22/10/2018