Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member Housing

RESOLVED THAT

1.     going out to tender be approved, to understand the survey cost implications of each of the following survey options that could be undertaken:-

i.                 The costs involved in surveying all types of private rented housing in one or more of the following wards:

·        St Paul's;

·        Lansdown;

·        All Saints;

·        College;

·         Pittville; and

·        St Peters

ii.               The costs involved in surveying only Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in one or more of the wards, as detailed above.

2.     It be agreed that a further report be brought back to Cabinet to approve the tender price and selection, along with a recommendation as to which of the survey options should be undertaken.  

The Cabinet Member Housing introduced the report which sought approval to go out to tender for consultant surveyors services to undertake a house condition and management survey of the private rented stock in Cheltenham. He highlighted that the private rented stock was generally in a worse condition than that in public ownership. He reported that the majority of the private rented stock was situated in 6 different wards and these had been identified from previous house condition surveys as the most appropriate areas to be covered by the house condition and management survey. The survey work would seek to provide the Council with statistical evidence to help inform the appropriateness of implementing one or more of the following options across the wards covered by the proposed survey: Additional Licensing and/or Article 4 Direction concerning HMOs in specified wards in Cheltenham, or introducing Selective Licensing of all private rented accommodation in specified wards in Cheltenham. This would form the basis of a final Cabinet report.

RESOLVED THAT

1.     going out to tender be approved, to understand the survey cost implications of each of the following survey options that could be undertaken:-

i.                 The costs involved in surveying all types of private rented housing in one or more of the following wards:

·        St Paul's;

·        Lansdown;

·        All Saints;

·        College;

·         Pittville; and

·        St Peters

ii.               The costs involved in surveying only Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in one or more of the wards, as detailed above.

2.     It be agreed that a further report be brought back to Cabinet to approve the tender price and selection, along with a recommendation as to which of the survey options should be undertaken.