Issue - meetings

To consider an updated Strategy and to approve additional resources in respect of the Strategy for housing.

RESOLVED:

(a)       That the strategic approach to fire safety, as set out in the report and the Strategic Fire Safety Strategy attached as Appendix 1 to Report Item 5 to the Cabinet  be approved; and

(b)       That the additional resource of £60,000 required within the housing service to implement the improvements set out Section 4 of Report item 5 to the Cabinet be approved.

The Cabinet was advised that the Council’s existing fire safety policies had been reviewed to ensure that they remained robust to protect residents, staff and visitors to the Council’s buildings.  A proposed overarching Strategic Fire Safety Policy was attached as Appendix 1 to Report Item 5 to the Cabinet.  Detailed policies for the Council’s buildings would be prepared in accordance with this strategic approach and would be approved by the relevant portfolio holder by March 2019.  The first priority area of work was the Council’s housing stock where, because people lived and slept in the buildings, there was the greatest degree of vulnerability.

RESOLVED:

(a)       That the strategic approach to fire safety, as set out in the report and the Strategic Fire Safety Strategy attached as Appendix 1 to Report Item 5 to the Cabinet, be approved; and

(b)       That the additional resource of £60,000 required within the housing service to implement the improvements set out Section 4 of Report Item 5 to the Cabinet be approved.