Issue - meetings

To seek approval for the provision of Housing and Support for Older People over the next 20 years.

(Report attached)

RECOMMENDED that

1)         the Older Person’s Housing Strategy, detailed in Appendix 1 of the report, be approved; and

2)                 subject to community consultation, Officers implement the Strategy for the Housing and Support of Older People as detailed in the Action Plan, attached at Appendix 3 of the report.

(Officers were requested to arrange a visit for Members to all the Council’s Sheltered Housing Schemes as part of the consultation process.)

The Committee was asked to approve the Older Person’s Housing Strategy and Action Plan, attached at Appendices 1 and 3 of the report respectively, which sets the agenda and framework for the future of older person’s housing and support provided by the Council over the next sixteen years.

Members were informed that these documents were reflective of both demographic change and the changing needs of older people and would deliver the strategic aims outlined in National, Regional, County and Local policies.

Officers reported that further consultation would take place with residents.  Officers were also requested to arrange a visit for Members to all the Council’s Sheltered Housing Schemes as part of the consultation process.

RECOMMENDED that

1)         the Older Person’s Housing Strategy, detailed in Appendix 1 of the report, be approved; and

2)                 subject to community consultation, Officers implement the Strategy for the Housing and Support of Older People as detailed in the Action Plan, attached at Appendix 3 of the report.