This report provides an overview of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund and the potential opportunity for Hambleton District Council to participate in a joint funding application with Broadacres Housing Association which would benefit properties on the Ashlands estate in Northallerton.

In accepting the recommendations, Cabinet will approve and recommend to Council that the proposed submission of a grant funding application to the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund be agreed and that the Deputy Chief Executive is authorised to finalise the application and to enter into the Memorandum of Understanding with the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and a separate agreement with Broadacres.

The subject of the decision:

This report provides an overview of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund and the potential opportunity for Hambleton District Council to participate in a joint funding application with Broadacres Housing Association which would benefit Broadacres properties.

Alternative options considered:

None.

The reason for the decision:

Cabinet was satisfied that the proposed Social Housing Decarbonistion Fund bid contributed to the Council’s priority of ‘Caring for the Environment’ by enabling the delivery of carbon reduction initiatives.

The decision:

That Cabinet approves and recommends to Council that:-

(1)       the proposed submission of a grant funding application to the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund be agreed; and

(2)       that the Deputy Chief Executive, in consultation with the Leader, is authorised to finalise the application, including actual properties to be submitted as part of any bid, and to enter into the Memorandum of Understanding with the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and a separate legal agreement.