Issue - meetings

Members are being asked to give their approval to extend the existing temporary bed and breakfast schemes at 1 Clement Close and 1-5 Peel Road, which were scheduled to end on 10^th August 2015.  The Brent Housing Partnership (BHP) led development of the sites for new accommodation for independent living (NAIL) for clients with learning disabilities, which was approved by the 21^st July Cabinet, has been delayed, with a new start-on-site forecast for December 2015.  This has provided the opportunity to extend the temporary bed and breakfast schemes and thereby continue providing much needed temporary accommodation for homeless households until vacant possession of the sites is required for development.

(i)         that authority be delegated to the Operational Director of Property and Projects to extend the temporary bed and breakfast schemes at 1 Clement Close and 1-5 Peel Road from 11 August 2015 until the expiry of the temporary planning consent on 9 December 2015, and to accordingly extend the current lease arrangements for this purpose;

(ii)        thatauthority be delegated to the Operational Director of Property and Projects to extend the temporary bed and breakfast schemes beyond 9 December 2015, subject to further development start-on-site delays and extension of temporary planning consent, and to accordingly extend the current lease arrangements for this purpose. 

Councillor McLennan (Lead Member, Housing and Development) introduced the report which sought approval to extend the existing temporary bed and breakfast schemes at 1 Clement Close and 1-5 Peel Road, which were scheduled to end on 10 August 2015.  She advised that the Brent Housing Partnership (BHP) led development of the sites for new accommodation for independent living (NAIL) for clients with learning disabilities, which was approved by the Cabinet on 21 July, had been delayed, with a new start-on-site forecast for December 2015.  This has provided the opportunity to extend the temporary bed and breakfast schemes and thereby continue providing much needed temporary accommodation for homeless households until vacant possession of the sites is required for development. 

The Cabinet also had before them an appendix to the report which was not for publication as it contained the following category of exempt information as specified in Schedule 12 of the Local Government (Access to Information Act) 1972: 

Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information).

RESOLVED:

(i)         that authority be delegated to the Operational Director of Property and Projects to extend the temporary bed and breakfast schemes at 1 Clement Close and 1-5 Peel Road from 11 August 2015 until the expiry of the temporary planning consent on 9 December 2015, and to accordingly extend the current lease arrangements for this purpose;

(ii)        that authority be delegated to the Operational Director of Property and Projects to extend the temporary bed and breakfast schemes beyond 9 December 2015, subject to further development start-on-site delays and extension of temporary planning consent, and to accordingly extend the current lease arrangements for this purpose.