Issue - meetings

(a)       That, in liaison with the Chairman, the Housing & Learning Overview & Scrutiny Facilitator arrange a workshop for July 2013 to enable the Committee to populate its Forward Work Programme; and

(b)       That the meeting of the Committee on 10 July 2013 be held at Llys Eleanor in Shotton and include a tour of facilities.

The Housing & Learning Overview & Scrutiny Facilitator introduced a report to enable the Committee to consider the Forward Work Programme.  She explained that dates from September 2013 had been included in the Diary of Meetings to be endorsed at the Annual County Council meeting.  Members agreed to the suggestion for the Facilitator to liaise with the Chairman on a workshop to be held in July 2013 to populate the Forward Work Programme.

The Facilitator put forward a suggestion made by the Cabinet Member for Housing for a future meeting of the Committee to be held at Llys Eleanor in Shotton, including a tour of the extra care facilities.  The Committee agreed that this would be scheduled for the meeting on 10 July 2013.

In response to a query by Councillor R. Dolphin on the availability of results from the review of garage sites, the Head of Housing advised that a report by the Head of Streetscene would include sites within the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) which were maintained by Streetscene in the same way as Council land.  Feedback from this would be shared with the Committee at a future meeting.

Following a question from Councillor M.A. Reece on the sale of Council houses, the Head of Housing explained that only a small proportion of the receipts were put into the HRA which was utilised in the Capital Programme.  A report on the HRA subsidy review system was due to be received by the Committee on 10 July 2013.

RESOLVED:

(a)       That, in liaison with the Chairman, the Housing & Learning Overview & Scrutiny Facilitator arrange a workshop for July 2013 to enable the Committee to populate its Forward Work Programme; and

(b)       That the meeting of the Committee on 10 July 2013 be held at Llys Eleanor in Shotton and include a tour of facilities.