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Work Programme 2017/18, Scrutiny Review Topics and Key Decision Forward Plan

 

 

Meeting: 07/11/2017 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Regeneration and Skills) (Item 30)

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Report of the Head of Regulation and Compliance

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Minutes:

The Committee considered the report of the Head of Regulation and Compliance that updated on the draft Work Programme for 2017/18; and seeking the identification of any items for pre-scrutiny from the Key Decision Forward Plan.

 

The Head of Regulation and Compliance advised the Committee that further to Minute No. 20 (4) of the meeting held on 19 September 2017 (which established a Working Group to review the topic of Sefton’s Housing Development Company) the Head of Regeneration and Housing now considers that at this stage, because the Housing Development Company hadn’t formally been set up, there was a significant amount of work to do to get the company to the go live stage; and it was not envisaged that this stage would be reached until early 2018 at the earliest. Furthermore, It would then be some time before the company commenced its operations, and longer still until the Council would be able to judge whether this venture was producing tangible benefits. Accordingly, the view was that due to the infancy of the Housing Development Company, this was not a suitable topic for a Scrutiny and Review Working Group. 

 

However, the Head of Regeneration and Housing did consider there was merit in establishing a Working Group to review the proposed performance framework associated with the Private Rented Sector Housing Selective Licensing and additional Houses in Multi-Occupation Licensing Schemes; and a scoping document had been produced. 

 

RESOLVED: That

 

(1)

the Work Programme for 2017/18, as set out in Appendix 1 to the report, be approved:

 

(2)

bearing in mind the comments of the Head of Regeneration and Housing  “Sefton’s Housing Development Company” be not selected as a topic for review by a Working Group;  

 

(3)

a Working Group be established to review the proposed performance framework associated with the Private Rented Sector Housing Selective Licensing and additional Houses in Multi-Occupation Licensing Schemes; and

 

(4)

the Head of Regulation and Compliance be requested to circulate the scoping document to Members of the Committee and to seek their willingness to serve on the Working Group.