Issue - meetings

That the Local Lettings Plan for new build properties, attached as Appendix 1 to the report, be approved.

Councillor Peter Bilson presented the Local Lettings Plan – New Build Properties for approval. Wolverhampton was set to build or acquire over 500 new affordable rent Council properties by 2024, so the Local Lettings Plan was required to support their integration into the wider housing stock.

The Local Lettings Plan had been designed to ensure the stability and sustainability of new communities created through new build development, whilst ensuring existing communities remained balanced and sustainable and would not be destabilised by the letting of concentrations of new builds within an area. The Plan would seek to make best use of stock by maximising the number of households in housing need, assisted by the development of new build properties as well as ensuring groups protected by an equality characteristic would not be disadvantaged.

Resolved:

That the Local Lettings Plan for new build properties, attached as Appendix 1 to the report, be approved.