Decision details

Decision details

Project Approval and Allocation of Housing and Growth Deal Funding for Affordable Housing Delivery

Decision Maker: Cabinet, Council, Chief Executive, Executive Director (Communities and People)

Decision status: Recommendations approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

Agreement to provide grant funding to support this development.

Decisions:

Council considered the report of the Head of Housing Services seeking project approval and delegations to enable capital grant allocations to be paid to Registered Providers and Community-Led Housing providers for schemes within the Oxfordshire Housing and Growth Deal programme, using grant received from Oxfordshire County Council for this purpose.

The Cabinet Member for Affordable Housing, Cllr Rowley, introduced the report, proposed the recommendations and answered questions. The recommendations were agreed on being seconded and put to the vote.

 

Council resolved to approve a revision to the general fund capital budget in 2020/21 of £3,123,000, for the initial grant payment in relation to the William Morris Close site, and a further capital budget for 2021/22 of £347,000 to fund the remaining grant balance payable for that scheme all of which will be funded by capital grant income from Oxfordshire Housing and Growth Deal (OGD).

 

Report author: Dave Scholes

Publication date: 23/12/2020

Date of decision: 30/11/2020

Decided at meeting: 30/11/2020 - Council

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