Issue - items at meetings - Consultation on revised arrangements for regulating the council’s landlord services

Report of Strategic Director Place (copy attached).

79.1    The Committee considered a report of the Strategic Director Place which outlined the revised regulatory framework for social housing in England from 1 April 2012, on which the Tenant Services Authority was currently consulting.  The consultation period ended on 10 February 2012.  

79.2    The Housing Stock Review Manager explained that the Tenant Services Authority was to be abolished in April 2012 and responsibility for regulating council landlords, housing associations and other registered providers transferred to a new independent regulation committee within the Homes and Communities Agency.  There were proposed changes to the standards registered providers were required to meet and the circumstances in which the regulator would be able to use its monitoring and enforcement powers.  The main changes were set out in paragraph 3.2 of the report.

79.3    The required outcomes of the four consumer standards which would be applied to the council were set out in Appendix 1.  Landlords would still be required to meet all the standards that applied and councillors and boards who governed landlords’ service delivery would remain responsible for ensuring that they did meet standards. 

79.4    RESOLVED – (1) That the proposed new regulatory framework for social housing in England from 1 April 2012 be noted.