Purpose

Issues covered in the HRA Business Plan are to:

• set out the authority’s purpose or mission as a social housing landlord;

• set out objectives and standards for the service;
• plan how to achieve the objectives and standards set out (the strategies);
• plan resource and financial requirements;
• provide a framework for monitoring and evaluating the progress of the housing ‘business’;
• communicate the authority’s plans to its tenants, Welsh Government, other key stakeholders, partners and the wider community.

The report is proposing to;

• encourage more efficient use of housing assets;

• increase the transparency of the HRA;
• assist authorities in planning their housing management strategy;
• put authorities’ housing accounts onto a more business-like basis.

Decision

Appendix 4 to this report is exempt from publication because it contains information of the kind described in paragraphs 14 (information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person) and 21 (public interest test) of parts 4 and 5 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 and in all the circumstances of the case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Cllr Ash Lister declared a personal and prejudicial interest in this item, as a relative lives in accommodation mentioned in the report. Cllr Lister left the meeting and took no part in the decision making process.

RESOLVED: that the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) Business Plan 2024-2025 for presentation to Welsh Government be approved.