Decision details

Use of Civil Penalties to fund the expansion of the Housing Enforcement Team

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: For Determination

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Decision:

 

1.    Cabinet approved the Business Case for using the income received from civil penalties to fund the expansion of the Housing Enforcement Team (attached to this report as Appendix A);

 

2.    Cabinet approved the expansion of the Housing Enforcement Team to include an additional 8 Officers (a Housing Enforcement Manager, a Tenancy Relations Officer, 4 Environmental Health Officers and 2 Intelligence Officers) as described in Option 2 of the report

 

3.    Cabinet delegated to the Chief Executive, in consultation with the Chief Finance Officer and the Cabinet Members for Finance and Housing & Wellbeing, the authority to expand the Housing Enforcement Team by an additional 5 Officers (4 Environmental Health Officers and an Intelligence Officer), described in Option 4 of the report, subject to due diligence and the production of an updated Business Case.

Publication date: 18/01/2018

Date of decision: 17/01/2018

Decided at meeting: 17/01/2018 - Cabinet

Effective from: 24/01/2018

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