Agenda item

Report of the Town Clerk.

The Deputy Chairman took the Chair for consideration of this item.

The Committee considered a report of the Town Clerk examining the current structures in place around housing governance and presenting a range of initial options for consideration in respect of a future direction for the City Corporation’s housing governance arrangements.

Michael Hudson, the newly-elected Chairman of the Barbican Residential Committee, was invited to address the Committee. He outlined the activity which he had undertaken since taking on the Chairmanship, consulting with various parties to identify potential solutions to specific concerns relating to that Committee’s composition and difficulties experienced by some Members of the Committee with respect to dispensations. He suggested that it would be appropriate for his Committee to take an initial view on the matter so as to inform any future consideration by the Policy and Resources Committee. Members agreed that this would be prudent, observing that other Committees which might be affected, such as the Community & Children’s Services Committee and the Property Investment Board, should also be consulted.

It was agreed that, given the clear need for other Committees to take an initial view on the matter, this paper had been presented precipitately and that consideration should be deferred until the autumn, once the views of the other affected Committees were known and the proposals had been refined accordingly.

RESOLVED: That the report be deferred.