Issue - meetings
Community Hubs
Meeting: 22/12/2020 - Cabinet (Item 8)
Report of the Cabinet Member Housing
Additional documents:
- 2020_12_22_Better Care Funding_appendix 2_example of scheme, item 8
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- 2020_12_22_Better Care Funding_appendix 3_community impact assessment, item 8
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Decision:
RESOLVED THAT:
1. Works be authorised to be carried out on the communal areas of above-mentioned sheltered housing schemes, with a view to creating two new community hubs as detailed in Section 2.1.
Minutes:
The Cabinet Member Housing presented the report, which sought to revamp community spaces within sheltered housing schemes as part of a county-wide partnership. Similar revamps had been done before in other areas of the town, and had been very well received, with benefits for local tenants and the wider community. He added that Cheltenham Borough Homes (CBH) had bid for funding on the council’s behalf and had been successful.
The Cabinet Member Economy and Development praised the report as an opportunity to improve community health and wellbeing. The Cabinet Member Healthy Lifestyles added that it fit with the work she was doing with the Cheltenham Dementia Alliance, particularly with regard to getting older people active and exercising.
The Leader of the Council added that she had one of these community hubs in her ward and it made a genuine difference, with positive interaction between residents, communities and especially between different generations.
The Leader moved to a vote, where it was unanimously:
RESOLVED THAT:
1. Works be authorised to be carried out on the communal areas of above-mentioned sheltered housing schemes, with a view to creating two new community hubs as detailed in Section 2.1.