Decision

RESOLVED:

i.                     To endorse the Housing Asset Management, Development and Growth Policy.

ii.                   To note the rationale for the wider framework, and the Council’s intention to bring forward the Asset Management, Development and Growth Policy, the Housing Asset Page 1 of 6 Management, Development and Growth Strategy, the 30year business plan and associated policy framework for adoption in autumn 2026.

iii.                  To note the requirement for a supporting suite of associated operational policies and, informed by the policy analysis, to endorse the programme to produce and adopt them, prioritising the statutory and regulatory gaps.

iv.                 To ask officers, in consultation with the relevant Portfolio Holder, and stakeholders to implement a programme to produce the policies for member approval and adoption commencing Autumn 2026 prioritising the statutory and regulatory gaps. 

Reasons for the decision

The report sought Cabinet endorsement of the Housing Asset Management, Development and Growth Policy. It also set out the rationale for the wider framework within which the Policy sits, so that Members can endorse the Policy in the knowledge of how it connects to the Strategy, the Delivery Plan, the 30 year business plan and the suite of associated operational policies that will follow. 

Alternative options considered

None.