Issue - meetings

          The Board considered a report of the Executive Director – Adults, which set out amendments to the Property Pool Plus (PPP) Allocations Policy. The aspiration remained that the local authorities would continue to facilitate a single lettings approach for scheme partners and customers when allocating and letting social housing across the city region.

          The Board was advised that the participating local authorities and housing associations wanted to ensure to allocations policy was fit for purpose and supported the strategic city region wide aspirations around social housing and therefore a review of the PPP had been undertaken. The revised policy incorporated a significant number of changes to various elements of the scheme including the qualification, criteria and priority banding system. Full details of the changes, revised scheme and the upgrade to the IT system, were outlined in the report.

          Due to the scale of the change and the required preparatory work, it was requested that the scheme would be closed to new applications for a period of one month before the launch of the revised scheme. It was also recommended that there would be a pause in property advertising for a two-week period prior to the launch to allow partner Housing Association landlords time to update property shortlists under the scheme rules.

          RESOLVED: That

1)    the report be noted; and

2)    the Board approve the amended Property Pool Plus Allocations Policy.