Agenda item

Report of the Chief Executive, Nottingham City Homes

Will Morritt, City Housing Manager, introduced the report updating the Committee on Nottingham City Homes activity within the area. He highlighted the following points:

(a)  The programme of planned high-rise safety improvements continues to progress. There will be engagement events with the residents of high rise properties taking place prior to work starting on new sprinkler systems;

(b)  NCH has been listed for a number of awards, including the continued work around tenant involvement and also for Landlord of the year;

(c)  NCH continues to work with a number of different agencies including  Nottingham Credit Union, housing associations, housing benefits and children’s services around universal credit to reduce the number of families facing eviction;

Following questions and comments from the Committee and residents present the following information was highlighted:

(d)  Owner occupier residents of the blocks of flats known as the “Courts” are still very concerned about the total charges for works relating to various schemes and  improvements and the payment options currently being discussed;

(e)  There will be consultation events with affected residents in the near future where details of the payback options will be discussed along with payment caps and optional works;

RESOLVED to:

(1)  Note the update and performance information in Appendices 1 and 2 as distributed with the original agenda;

(2)  Note the allocation of funds for 2017/18 as below;

and

(3)  Approved the Area Capital programme funding request set out in Appendix 3, distributed as a second supplement agenda and circulated in paper format at the Committee meeting.