Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration.

The report contains the first annual report to Stockport Council’s Communities & Housing  Scrutiny Committee about Stockport Homes’ performance against its Delivery Plan.

This approach to informing the Council about outcomes was introduced alongside the 2015-42 Management Agreement. It is designed to give Members confidence that the ALMO is making good use of the freedoms and flexibilities the Management Agreement confers.

The Scrutiny Committee is recommended to comment on and note the report.

Officer contact: Andy Kippax on 0161 474 4319 or email: andy.kippax@stockport.gov.uk

Representatives of the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration the Chief Executive of Stockport Homes submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) providing the first annual report to the Scrutiny Committee in relation to Stockport Homes’ performance against its Delivery Plan.

The following comments were made/ issues raised:-

·         Further information on the number of participants who secured employment as a result of the Motiv8 initiative, which aimed to support excluded groups with complex needs into the labour market.

·         The work of Stockport Homes to engage with tenants who had drug, alcohol, low level mental health or anger management issues to sustain their tenancies was welcomed.

·         It was important that key new employers in the Borough were encouraged to recruit new employees from within the locality. 

·         Officers were proactive in investigating fraudulent Right to Buy applications to prevent such sales from being completed.

·         Many tenants were dissuaded from taking employment at key employment sites in the wider conurbation, such as at Airport City by virtue of the poor transport links.  In response it was stated that Stockport Homes was working with local transport providers to try and assemble funding to provide early morning bus links.

·         Further information was requested on the usage of the ten community centres managed by Stockport Homes’ on the Council’s behalf including the baselines that the increase in usage had been calculated from and which centres had not seen as strong a growth in their usage.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.