Decision details

To consider a report on registered providers charging arrangements

Following on from the previous report on the Bucks Home Choice scheme and the charging arrangements for Registered Providers (aka housing associations), this report summarises the status of the charging arrangements that currently operate within each district for (i) Bucks Home Choice adverts and (ii) development partnership arrangements, and reviews the options for operating the charging arrangements from vesting day and recommends the approach that should be taken.

RESOLVED:

1.    Draft and implement a timetable for the development and introduction of a harmonised countywide system for charging Registered Providers to advertise tenancies via the Bucks Home Choice scheme with a target completion date of 30 September 2020.

2.    Continue the existing district-zoned Bucks Home Choice charging arrangements in Aylesbury Vale and Wycombe post-vesting day until new countywide harmonised charging arrangements are introduced

3.    Continue the existing Aylesbury Vale Affordable Housing Partnership Agreement from vesting day on the basis that the new Buckinghamshire Council will review working arrangements with Registered Providers and may develop and implement a new countywide Affordable Housing Partnership Agreement as required.