Issue - decisions

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.