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Venue: A Committee Room - City Hall, College Green, Bristol, BS1 5TR. View directions
Contact: Claudette Campbell
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Welcome, Introductions and Apologies for absence Minutes: The Chair, Cllr Smith, welcomed those present. He noted the following apologies:-
· Steven Teagle – Kathryn Pennington as substitute; · Laura Welti; · Penny Walster; · Rob Kerse; · Bevis Watts.
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Public Forum questions and statements are permitted on any Key Decision agenda item. There are no Key Decisions to be taken at this meeting.
Minutes: None received. |
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Minutes of the last meeting PDF 106 KB To Agree the Minutes of the last meeting and to consider matters arising. Minutes:
The minutes were agreed as a correct record subject to the following changes:-
• Membership listing – Nick Horne – delete ‘Chief Executive Liverty’ replace with ‘Independent’; • Membership listing – Tom Renhard – Add ‘Director’ before ‘Acorn’.
Matters Arising
1. The Chair informed the Board that at its meeting on 4 September, Cabinet had agreed to set up a Local Housing Company. The company would be registered once its name was determined. The decision included the transfer of land at Romney House, Lockleaze (planning permission already granted) and the Baltic Wharf Caravan Club site (planning permission yet to be given) to the Company. There were also 26 sites that were being put forward as potential sites for self-build through Bristol & Bath Regional Capital and the Community Housing Hub. |
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Housing Festival - Jez Sweetland PDF 85 KB For information and discussion. Minutes: The Chair welcomed and introduced Jez Sweetland. Jez Sweetland then introduced his colleague Jessie Weldon and two guests – Francesca Medda and Huw Thomas from University College London.
The following points arose after the presentation:-
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Social Housing Green Paper PDF 250 KB For discussion Minutes: The full document and one-page summary had been circulated to Board members for initial comment. The Chair felt it would be too complex to respond as a Board and therefore encouraged all groups to respond individually. His initial thought was that a Green Paper on this subject had to be a good thing and that funding for social housing would continue. The following points arose from discussion:-
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Standing Item - Housing Delivery Update PDF 325 KB To receive;
· Housing Delivery Update
Minutes: · The Chair reported that the Council was to bid for additional housing capacity within revenue accounts for 378 homes and £40m additional borrowing. The bid would be for 10 individual schemes on condition that they started within 3 years. · Affordable housing development: There had been some slippage in anticipated development figures, and further slippage could not be ruled out. He hoped Housing Associations would be encouraged to contact BCC as there was still grant available to bid for that could be used to buy up whole schemes to increase affordable housing numbers. The Council was on target to provide 800 new affordable homes by 2020. He noted the current increase in activity, particularly reporting that Romney House and Hartcliffe Campus now had outline planning permission. Work was taking place on bringing more sites forward on the border with neighbouring authorities in relation to the agreed Joint Spatial Plan; · The Chair also reported that 4 June 2019 would be the centenary of the tree planting of Bristol’s first post-war housing development as implemented by Dr Christopher Addison. There would be a ceremony and the Government Minister would be invited.
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Any Other Business Minutes: • Suggested item for the November Homes Board was an updated on the Mental Health and Housing report; • The land hub would be amalgamated into Bristol Community Land Trust after Christmas; • Galliford Try offered to bring an item to a future meeting on the work they are undertaking to develop a skills academy for construction, Cllr Smith suggested this be a wider report that also looked at the new skills centre opening in Hengrove in 2019; • There had been strong cross-party support for the Local Housing Company. There had been three Scrutiny meetings which had been positive; • There had been no time to consider the One City Plan. An electronic update would therefore be circulated. |