Agenda item - HIAM Building Safety Resident Engagement Strategy + Laundry Review

-       14:35

-       20 Minutes

                                          4    HIAM BUILDING SAFETY RESIDENT ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY +

5 LAUNDRY REVIEW                                                                                                      

4.1 Jane White delivered a verbal brief on the item as per included in the agenda (high rise safety). This was in response to a central government directive for local authorities to develop their own high rise safety strategy in response to the Grenfell tragedy. This included informing the HAP on the current and future measures being taken and the circulation of the strategy once agreed to all over 16s allocated to properties deemed to be ‘high-rise’ or of sufficient risk.

4.2 DJ asked for clarification on what has been circulated to residents, JW confirmed that the strategy was still being formulated, and fire safety information was being circulated.

4.3 JW delivered a verbal brief on the item as per included in the agenda (laundry review). This brief included statistics on the use of ‘in-house’ laundrettes and the cost to the authority measured against the take-up by eligible residents. It was noted that the current format was costing the authority £40K in F/Y. The officer made it clear that any changes would be subject to an Equality Impact Assessment before they were implemented to ensure no one had a service that they made use of, made unavailable to them.

4.4 HH asked clarification if residents had to pay upfront to use the service, the officer clarified that this had not been the case since the pandemic but was subject to change in the future. HH asked for further clarification if senior/vulnerable residents would be impacted by this. The officer provided clarification that this service would not be changing.