Issue details
Quality of Section 106 Social Housing - Report of the Scrutiny Challenge Session
PDF 78 KBTo receive and comment on the report of the Scrutiny Challenge Session with regard to the quality of Section 106 Social Housing.
Decision type: Key
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Wards affected: (All Wards);
Notice of proposed decision first published: 14/04/2015
Decision due: 3 Nov 15 by Cabinet
Considered on: 7 Apr 15 by Overview & Scrutiny Committee
Lead member: Deputy Mayor and Cabinet Member for Housing Management and Performance, Deputy Mayor and Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Air Quality
Lead director: Corporate Director, Development & Renewal
Department: Development and Renewal
Contact: Jackie Odunoye odunoye@hotmail.com, Owen Whalley, (Divisional Director, Planning & Building Control) owen.whalley@towerhamlets.gov.uk.
Consultation process
The Scrutiny Challenge Session included representatives of Registered Providers and a housing developer in the Borough. The Action Plan has been drawn up in consultation with officers from the Council’s Planning and Building; Strategy Regeneration and Sustainability.
Has an Equality Analysis been carried out and if so the result of this Assessment?: The scrutiny report's recommendations support the Council's One Tower Hamlets aims, including to reduce inequality. The Council has strategic objectives to provide good quality affordable housing and to improve the quality of housing. The scrutiny report identifies an inequality relating to housing tenure. The report sets out concerns that some affordable housing, built by private developers under S106 agreements, may not be fit for purpose. The report's recommendations propose a number of actions to help address this.
What supporting documents or other information will be available?: None
Decisions
Agenda items
- 03/11/2015 - Cabinet Quality of S106 Social Housing - Report of the Scrutiny Challenge Session 03/11/2015