Issue - meetings

 Report by Maggie Rae, Corporate Director

Cllr Jonathon Seed presented the report which sought delegated approval to deliver a revised programme of around 226 new council homes across Wiltshire to meet identified need using council owned land and funding from a range of sources including housing revenue account (HRA) reserves and borrowing, right to buy receipts, commuted sum funding, social care and housing capital funding and grant funding secured from the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), Department of Health (DoH) and other funding bodies.

James Cawley, Associate Director, stated that the a report would be presented to a future meeting of the Committee regarding the impact of the Government’s proposals to reduce social rents by 1%; but that consideration of the likely impacts should not delay implementation of the Council House Building Programme.

The Leader proposed that the vote on the matter should take place once the Committee had considered the financial information contained in the exempt report.