Decision details

Decision details

Local Authority Housing Fund Round 4

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Decision:

Cabinet resolved to:

1.    Approve receipt of the Local Authority Housing Fund Round 4 (LAHF R4) funding of £1,719,354 to deliver 4 temporary accommodation units and 4 units for resettled Afghan families

2.    Recommend to Council, to approve the allocation of £808,000 of the LAHF R4 grant funding in substitution of approved HRA borrowing for the delivery of the temporary accommodation element of LAHF R4.

3.    Recommend to Council, to approve the allocation of £898,500 of the LAHF R4 grant funding to a new General Fund capital budget for the payment of a capital grant of 898,500 to a Registered Provider to deliver the ‘resettlement’ element of LAHF R4.

4.    Delegate authority to the Director of Housing in consultation with; Cabinet Member for Regulation of the Private Rented Sector and Preventing Homelessness, the Group Finance Director and the Director of Law Governance and Strategy, to select a Registered Provider delivery partner and enter into a grant agreement with them to part fund the purchase of 4 units for resettled Afghan families.

Publication date: 09/07/2026

Date of decision: 08/07/2026

Decided at meeting: 08/07/2026 - Cabinet

Effective from: 14/07/2026

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