Subject:

Frederick Street Scheme Approval

Date of Meeting:

18 Sept 2019

Report of:

Executive Director for Neighbourhoods, Communities & Housing   

Contact Officer:

Name:

Shaun Hughes

Tel:

01273 29 05 69

 

E-mail:

shaun.hughes@brighton-hove.gov.uk

Wards Affected:

All                                  

 

 

            For general release

 

Action Required of the Policy & Resources Committee:

 

That the Housing Committee recommend to Policy & Resources Committee to:

 

     I.        Appropriate the Frederick Street car park site (7-9, Frederick Street, Brighton,

BN1 4TA) for planning purposes and delegate authority to the Executive

Director for Neighbourhoods, Communities & Housing to appropriate for

housing once the development is complete.

 

    II.        Approve the appropriation of land at Frederick Street from the General Fund

to the Housing Revenue Account for £0.300m, being the best consideration

reasonably obtainable.

 

  III.        Approve the use of £0.300m of commuted sums held for housing purposes

as a contribution to the total scheme costs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brighton & Hove City Council

 

Housing committee

 

18 SEPTEMBER 2019

 

Council chamber, hove town hall

 

 

Present: Councillor Williams (Chair) Allcock (Substitute), Gibson (Opposition Spokesperson), Mears (Group Spokesperson), Atkinson, Barnett, Fowler, Heley, Hugh-Jones and Osborne

 

MINUTE EXTRACT

 

PART ONE

 

                

 

13          fREDERICK sTREET SCHEME aPPROVAL

 

The Committee did not call the item for discussion and the recommendations contained therein were therefore approved and adopted.

 

Resolved: That the Housing Committee agreed the following recommendations:

 

                    i.       The proposed scheme of four new council homes at Frederick Street,

Brighton under the New Homes for Neighbourhoods programme;

 

ii.    The rent levels for the 2 bed flats are set at Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates and the 1 bed flats are set at 37.5% Living Wage rates in line with the New Homes Rent policy.

 

That the Housing Committee recommend to Policy & Resources Committee to:

 

                   I.        Appropriate the Frederick Street car park site (7-9, Frederick Street, Brighton, BN1 4TA) for planning purposes and delegate authority to the Executive Director for Neighbourhoods, Communities & Housing to appropriate for housing once the development is complete.

 

                  II.        Approve the appropriation of land at Frederick Street from the General Fund to the Housing Revenue Account for £0.300m, being the best consideration reasonably obtainable.

 

                III.        Approve the use of £0.300m of commuted sums held for housing purposes as a contribution to the total scheme costs.