POLICY & RESOURCES COMMITTEE

Agenda Item 89 Brighton & Hove City Council

Subject:		Charles Kingston Gardens Lease Acquisition
Date of Meeting:		1 December 2022
Contact Officer:	Name:	Shaun Hughes	Tel:	01273 290569
	E-mail:	shaun.hughes@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Wards Affected:		All Wards

For General release

Action Required of Policy & Resources Committee:

Recommendations:

That Policy & Resources Committee:

1. That Policy & Resources Committee delegate authority to Executive Director Housing, Neighbourhoods & Communities to accept a surrender of the long lease on Charles Kingston Gardens from Clarion Housing Association Limited, to use as seniors housing subject to all further enquiries to be carried out proving satisfactory.

2. Approve that the Council makes an offer of up to the agreed sum and approves a budget line in the 2022/23 HRA Capital Programme detailed in the Part 2 report.

Brighton & Hove City Council

Housing Committee

4.00pm 16 November 2022

MINUTES

Present:  Councillors: Gibson (Joint Chair), Hugh-Jones (Joint Chair), Williams (Opposition Spokesperson), Meadows, Osborne, Phillips and Powell.

Substitutes: Councillor Allcock for Councillor Fowler, Councillor Barnett for Councillor Mears, and Councillor Grimshaw for Councillor Mcintosh.

Apologies: Councillors Mears, Mcintosh and Fowler

PART ONE<AI1>

Item 42: Charles Kingston Gardens Lease Acquisition

42.1     The Assistant Director Housing Management introduced the report to the committee.

            Answers to Committee Member Questions

42.2     Councillor Williams was informed that rents for the existing tenants would be lower, and the service charges would be higher.

42.3     Councillor Meadows was informed that with regarding to phasing in service charges these were the subject of a consultation and residents will be offered the full services and those requiring support will receive it. The council are consulting on a services scheme. Support will be given to tenants from day one, and if the consultation is successful the services will be utilised straight away.

42.4     Councillor Gibson considered the report to be positive, the phasing in of service charges to be a good idea and asked that the project be got on with quickly.

            Vote

42.5     A vote was taken, and the committee agreed the recommendations unanimously.

RESOLVED:

2.1       Housing Committee recommends that Policy & Resources Committee delegate authority to Executive Director Housing, Neighbourhoods & Communities to accept a surrender of the long lease on Charles Kingston Gardens from Clarion Housing Association Limited to use as seniors housing, subject to all further enquiries to be carried out proving satisfactory.

2.2       That Housing Committee recommends to Policy & Resources Committee that the Council makes an offer of up to the agreed sum and approves a budget line to be included in the 2022/23 HRA Capital Programme detailed in the Part 2 report.

That Policy & Resources Committee:

2.3       That Policy & Resources Committee delegate authority to Executive Director Housing, Neighbourhoods & Communities to accept a surrender of the long lease on Charles Kingston Gardens from Clarion Housing Association Limited, to use as seniors housing subject to all further enquiries to be carried out proving satisfactory.

2.4       Approve that the Council makes an offer of up to the agreed sum and approves a budget line in the 2022/23 HRA Capital Programme detailed in the Part 2 report.