Agenda item

Report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services.

Members received a report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services regarding the findings of Phase 1 of the sheltered housing review and options for further action, including:

·         A new focus on the building of ‘lifetime’ homes as part of the development programme;

·         A move to include housing suitable for older people on all estates wherever possible; and

·         Changes in how we deliver housing support and ensure that older people are not socially isolated.

Members agreed that Community and Children’s Services Committee Members should be encouraged to go on more visits to the sheltered housing developments and estates.

RESOLVED – That:

(a)  A recommendation be made to the Community & Children’s Services Committee that the future strategy should be to provide lifetime homes, suitable for older people, on every estate as far as possible;

(b)  Officers be authorised to commission detailed options appraisals for each of the City’s existing sheltered housing schemes which take into account the need to fund the development of lifetime homes; and

(c)  A paper identifying opportunities for building lifetime homes on existing estates be brought to this Sub Committee early in 2015.