Decision details

New tenancy conditions have been drafted and consulted upon with the Council’s tenants. A new tenancy agreement is proposed and new tenancy agreements will need to be issued.

1.  Cabinet approved the granting of new tenancies in accordance with the Council’s approved Tenancy Policy on the new conditions of tenancy set out in the tenancy agreement template attached at Appendix 1 to the Cabinet report; with effect from 1st April 2015.

2.  Cabinet agreed that Notice of Variation under Section 103 of the Housing Act 1985 be served on all existing tenants varying the terms of all existing tenancies to those new conditions of tenancy as set out in the draft tenancy agreement template at Appendix 1 to the Cabinet report; with effect from 1st April 2015.

To allow Thanet DC to make changes to the tenancy agreement as introduced by the Localism Act 2011.

Not making changes to the tenancy agreement.