Issue - meetings

[To be introduced by the Cabinet Member for Housing and Regeneration. Report of the  Assistant Director for Regeneration.]The report sets out sets out the conclusions and recommendations of the  Scrutiny panel  and presents the Cabinet Member’s response to them.

Councillor Strickland introduced the Cabinet Response and thanked the Scrutiny Panel for their work on this Review. All the recommendations were put forward for agreement which was a sign of the appropriateness of the findings.

Councillor Strickland remarked on the Panel’s recommendation on the management of assets and highlighted that the Development Vehicle will allow for this.

Councillor Strickland felt it was also a fair challenge to ask officers to further explore seeking EU funding for the refurbishment of Housing Estates and commended the Panel for their recommendations on specialist provision.

RESOLVED

To approve the responses to the recommendations set out in Appendix 1.