The funding allowed the City Council to appoint some master planning consultants to develop a spatial framework, public realm strategy, design code and viability costings that will provide the evidence base to support a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD).

To appointment a multi-disciplinary team of consultants to provide the evidence base for the West End Spatial Framework, which would be used by the City Council to produce a Supplementary Planning Document. The amount secured for the project was £150,000 which comes from a combination of Planning Policy and CIL with the remaining £50,000 from the Regeneration Team. This was set out in the report to Cabinet. 

Cabinet, at its meeting on 09 September 2020, delegated authority to:

1. The Director of Housing*, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Affordable Housing; the Head of Financial Services/Section 151 Officer; and the Council’s Monitoring Officer, to enter into agreements for the purchase of land, and any other necessary agreements or contracts and/or spend within the identified budget, for the provision of additional affordable housing; and

2. The Chief Executive, in consultation with the Cabinet Members for Finance and Asset Management, and Affordable Housing, to approve any property or development purchases over £500,000 for affordable housing, within this project approval and budget envelope.

*This delegation is now within the remit of the Executive Director (Communities and People).

To contract with consultants to provide commercial advice on a programme of affordable housing sites.

The funding for this agreement to be paid initially from the HRA revenue budget – using the HRA scheme feasibility budget.  As schemes progress into delivery, the costs of this advice, on a scheme by scheme basis, will then be capitalised into the acquisition cost of that scheme, as it brought into the HRA.