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24.

FILMING AT MEETINGS

Please note that this meeting may be filmed or recorded by the Council for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council’s internet site or by anyone attending the meeting using any communication method. Although we ask members of the public recording, filming or reporting on the meeting not to include the public seating areas, members of the public attending the meeting should be aware that we cannot guarantee that they will not be filmed or recorded by others attending the meeting. Members of the public participating in the meeting (e.g. making deputations, asking questions, making oral protests) should be aware that they are likely to be filmed, recorded or reported on. 

 

By entering the meeting room and using the public seating area, you are consenting to being filmed and to the possible use of those images and sound recordings.

 

The chair of the meeting has the discretion to terminate or suspend filming or recording, if in his or her opinion continuation of the filming, recording or reporting would disrupt or prejudice the proceedings, infringe the rights of any individual or may lead to the breach of a legal obligation by the Council.

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Minutes:

Noted

25.

URGENT BUSINESS

The Leader/Cabinet Member will advise of any items they have decided to take as urgent business.

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Minutes:

None.

26.

Declarations of interest

A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

 

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

 

A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

 

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct

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Minutes:

None.

27.

Allocation of Right to Buy receipts to identified development Projects to part -fund delivery of affordable rented housing pdf icon PDF 171 KB

This report aims to allocate RTB funding to the Hornsey Housing Trust Affordable Housing development programme in Haringey. Hornsey Housing Trust is a Haringey based housing association that delivers affordable homes with an emphasis on elders and those in need of support.

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Minutes:

Councillor Strickland considered the report as set out in the agenda pack.  Following a short discussion it was

 

RESOLVED that

 

i.          The allocation of Right to Buy receipts as grant funding to Hornsey Housing Trust, to fund the projects designated in the table at paragraph 6.5 of the report up to the funding amounts detailed in Part B exempt report be approved;

 

ii.         Delegated authority be given to the Interim Strategic Director of Regeneration, Planning and Development after consultation with the s151 Officer to agree the final amount of grant allocated to this project provided that the amount of funding allocated to these projects does not exceed the figure indicated within Part B exempt report, and to agree the terms of the funding agreement.

 

REASONS FOR DECISION

 

There is an acute shortage of housing supply, particularly of affordable housing, in Haringey. The borough has engaged with Registered Providers and identified a development  pipeline of sites where input of RTB receipts to grant fund up to 30% of scheme costs will help address this shortage by enabling a higher proportion of rented homes to be developed than may otherwise be the case.

 

Recommendation (i) is proposed to ensure the Council continues to take all opportunities to increase the borough’s affordable housing stock and help to meet the significant need for affordable housing within the borough.  This is in addition to contributing to the Council’s strategic objective to “Achieve a step change in the number of new homes being built.”

 

The Council expects the dwellings on these sites to be delivered within a reasonable timescale, approximately two years. All recipients of RTB grant funding will enter into a RTB Funding Agreement with the Council prior to receipt of funding. This funding agreement will require reimbursement of the RTB grant should there be unreasonable delay due to the RPs not progressing development proposals in a timely manner. The Council will receive 100% nomination rights to these affordable rented units in perpetuity.

 

The Council has sufficient retained RTB receipts to part-fund these development projects. RTB receipts that are retained by the council and not used within 3 years to provide replacement affordable rented units will have to be returned to MHCLG with interest at 4% above the Base Rate.

 

ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS CONSIDERED

 

To return net RTB receipts to MHCLG:

 

The Council is accumulating significant sums in RTB receipts and is allowed to re-invest this income to provide new rent affordable units. If the proposed receipts were to be returned to MHCLG rather than allocated to development projects, the supply of rented homes delivered and nominations to the Council would reduce given the adverse effect on financial viability resulting from the absence of this subsidy.

 

To fund alternative Registered Provider schemes in the borough: No appropriate scheme has come forward recently that will match the quality and quantity of the Hornsey Housing Trust social rented offer

28.

Exclusion of the press and public

Item 6 is likely to be subject of a motion to exclude the press and public from the meeting as they contain exempt information as defined in Section 100a of the Local Government Act 1972; Para 3 - information relating to the business or financial affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).

 

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RESOLVED that the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the consideration of item six as it contained exempt information as defined in Section 100a of the Local Government Act 1972; Paragraph 3 – information relating to the business or financial affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).

29.

Allocation of Right to Buy Receipts to identified Projects to part- fund delivery of Affordable Rented Housing - exempt report

To consider exempt information pertaining to item 4.

Minutes:

Councillor Strickland considered exempt information pertaining to item four of the agenda.