Agenda item

 Report by Maggie Rae, Corporate Director.

 Councillor Jonathon Seed, Cabinet Member for Housing, Leisure, Libraries and Flooding, presented the report which sought approval for approval to use the sites, mentioned in the report, for extra care housing; to gain approval to commit a maximum of £25,000 per site to de-risking work; and to delegate authority to the relevant Associate Directors and Cabinet Members to dispose of the sites to Providers on terms to be agreed, commit the HCA funding secured for these schemes and commit Local Authority (LA) funding required to support the delivery of the schemes which is already allocated to the delivery of extra care housing.

In giving his presentation, Cllr Seed proposed that Committee consider additionally to delegate authority to three Corporate Directors, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Finance and the Cabinet member for Housing, Leisure, Libraries and Flooding to conduct further modelling confirming financial benefits of extra care housing, alternative sites and capital land values; and to agree the report resulting from the modelling, use of alternative sites and capital land values.

There being no further debate, the Committee;

Resolved

1)     To approve commitment of the sites at Appendix 1 for the delivery of extra care housing

2)     To approve entering contracts for professional services to enable the de-risking of the sites in preparation for disposal in accordance with the Corporate Procurement & Commissioning Board approach up to a maximum value of £25,000 per site.

3)    To delegate authority to the Associate Directors responsible for housing, finance, procurement, legal and assets  in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Housing, Leisure, Libraries and Flooding, the Cabinet Member for Strategic Planning, Development Management, Strategic Housing, Property and Waste and the Cabinet Member for Finance, Performance, Risk, Procurement and Welfare Reform to approve;

a)    following a tender process the transfer of the sites to a Provider or Providers, identified by the tender process, for the delivery of extra care housing, on terms determined as part of the tender process

b)    The commitment of some of the external HCA funding to a Registered Provider for the delivery of extra care

c)    Entering into funding agreements with HCA, as required, to secure the grant funding.

d)    Commitment of Local Authority (LA) funding required to support the delivery of the schemes which has already been allocated to the delivery of the extra care programme;

e)    The general authority to enter into such documents and authorise such processes as are required to give effect to sub-headings a) to d) above.

4)    Delegate authority to three Corporate Directors, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Finance and the Cabinet member for Housing, Leisure, Libraries and Flooding to:

                      i.          Conduct further modelling confirming financial benefits of extra care housing, alternative sites and capital land values; and

                    ii.          Agree the report resulting from the modelling, use of alternative sites and capital land values.

Reason for Decision:

Since the Older People’s Accommodation Strategy was first approved in 2011 work has been ongoing to identify sites that would be suitable for the delivery of extra care housing.  In addition to this, work has also been ongoing with Registered Providers (RP) to determine their interest in delivering extra care housing in Wiltshire.

This paper proposes the commitment of a number of council owned sites to provide extra care housing and enabling those sites to be put on the market to invite proposals for the delivery of extra care housing.