Issue - meetings

Consideration was given to a report regarding the Council’s Low Cost Housing Scheme. The report referred to the current low demand for the properties and suggested this could be addressed through the extension of the current eligibility criteria, together with revised methods of marketing the scheme and the available properties.

RESOLVED:

(a)       that the eligibility criteria for the Low Cost Housing Scheme be extended to align with the local connection criteria for the Housing Register to include applicants who are employed in the Bromsgrove District and to those who have family already resident in the District;

(b)       that the Low Cost re-sale properties be marketed by way of the advertising opportunity available through the Home Choice Plus, Choice Based Lettings Scheme.