Issue - meetings
Housing Services Enforcement Policy
Meeting: 14/11/2012 - Cabinet (Item 106)
106 Housing Services Enforcement Policy 
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This policy articulates how Housing Services will protect the health, safety and welfare of residents by enforcing minimum housing standards. It updates the existing enforcement policy and introduces a new streamlined enforcement process.
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Minutes:
Councillor Eleanor Jackson (Chair of the Housing and Major Projects Policy Development and Scrutiny Panel) in an ad hoc statement welcomed the policy and congratulated officers and Councillor Tim Ball for bringing the proposals to Cabinet.
Councillor Tim Ball in proposing the item, emphasised that the policy was not in fact based only on enforcement, but was a means of ensuring decent housing. It would enable the Council to deal with the problem of empty homes.
Councillor Paul Crossley seconded the proposal.
On a motion from Councillor Tim Ball, seconded by Councillor Paul Crossley, it was
RESOLVED (unanimously)
(1) To ADOPT the revised enforcement policy.
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