Options to Improve the Quality but Reduce the Cost of Temporary Accommodation
Report of the Deputy Chief Executive (Place)
(Listing Officer: P Mudhar, Tel: 024 7683 1970)
Minutes:
Further to Minute 82 above, the Cabinet considered a private report of the Deputy Chief Executive (Place) setting out the commercially confidential matters relating to an option to lease a high rise development to provide temporary accommodation for homeless households, mainly for small family units.
RESOLVED that the Cabinet:
1) Approves the proposal to lease up to 102 properties at land at the site indicated for a period of no more than 5 years for use as temporary accommodation for homeless households, whilst longer term permanent accommodation solutions are being developed.
2) Approves the use of existing funding to meet the annual lease costs, which exceed £1.5m over the life of the five year contract.
3) Delegates authority to the Director of Customer Services and Transformation, following consultation with the Director of Finance and Corporate Services and the City Solicitor and the Cabinet Member for Communities and Housing, to undertake the necessary due diligence and agree the detailed terms of the lease agreement with the developer.
4) Approves the use of capital funding to meet the costs for furniture within the accommodation, estimated to be £0.10m.
5) Approves the use of city council funding to contribute towards the installation of a sprinkler system, and delegates authority to the Director of Customer Services and Transformation and Director of Finance and Corporate Services to negotiate the most cost effective way of implementing this as part of the wider agreement.