Decision details

This report seeks the approval of the Housing and Homelessness Portfolio Holder to allocate funding received under the Community Housing Fund to English Rural Housing Association (ERHA), to help finance the delivery of ten affordable homes on a ‘Rural Exception Site’ in Copythorne.

On 13 June 2024, Cllr Steve Davies, the Portfolio Holder for Housing and Homelessness made the following decision:

In accordance with the Authority’s Affordable Housing enabling role, as well as the corporate support for the development of affordable housing in the New Forest District, it is recommended that the Portfolio Holder for Housing and Homelessness delegates authority to the Strategic Director of Housing and Communities to allocate £100,000 towards the delivery of 10 affordable homes at Land East of New Inn Road, Bartley, subject to the agreed terms of a funding agreement.

Any member of the Council, who is not a Portfolio Holder, who considers that this decision should be reviewed should give notice using the call-in facility at the top of this page on the Council’s intranet / extranet site. Alternatively, notice can be given to the Monitoring Officer (Tanya Coulter) (in writing or by e-mail) to be received ON OR BY 5.15 pm on 20 June 2024.

Details of the document the Portfolio Holder considered are attached below.

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