Decision details

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).