Issue details

Officers have worked up this Local Lettings Plan in close consultation with Cot sway’s Housing Management team to ensure that it strikes a fair balance between creating a strong, cohesive community and meeting the Council’s affordable housing needs. A number of amendments were made to the LLP collaboratively with Cottsway following discussions, including adding a provision to ensure that the LLP would expire after first lets were completed- thereby ensuring that the LLP was active for the minimum amount of time required to fulfil its objectives.

Additionally, CBC officers sought to ensure that Cottsway let the 98 no. properties on Greenway Chase to households in priority housing need (classed as falling within Emergency, Gold and Silver Band need) to ensure that the most acute affordable housing needs were being met. Finally, Cottsway requested that a clause was included within the LLP to aim to achieve a minimum of 40% of allocations to households in employment, volunteering, or other economically active roles, with a wide definition of these categories being agreed between the Council and Cottsway, with households possessing protected characteristics who are unable to work or volunteer being considered under this Local Lettings Plan on a case-by-case basis.

Following this dialogue with Cottsway, officers engaged with Cheltenham Borough Council’s Cabinet Member for Housing and Customer Services, who had no further feedback or amendments to make, and confirmed that they were happy with the proposed Local Lettings Plan for Greenway Chase.