Cabinet Member for Housing and Wellbeing

The Cabinet Member for Housing and Wellbeing congratulated the Housing Task and Finish group on the review undertaken and advised that the recommendations in the report would be considered by Cabinet at a future meeting.

The Chairman of the Scrutiny Committee thanked the members of the Housing Task and Finish Group, and paid particular attention to Councillor Derek Conway who lead the review.

Councillor Conway praised the hard work of Housing Options staff and thanked the Policy and Performance Officer for his assistance.  He explained that the issues around Housing changed constantly and looked forward to Cabinet’s response.

The Leader agreed that work on Housing issues was one of the biggest topics that Members would be involved in throughout the rest of their term in office.

Resolved:

(1) That the report of the Scrutiny Committee on Housing Services be noted and the recommendations responded to at a subsequent Cabinet meeting.