607 East Kent Housing Q1 Performance Report for 2019/20 PDF 99 KB
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Members considered the performance of East Kent Housing (EKH) during the first quarter of the financial year 2019/20. The information provided in the report had also been considered by the Overview and Scrutiny Panel, at its meeting on 25 September 2019 and it covered three main areas of performance, which were:
· Performance against agreed key indicators;
· Progress against the Improvement Plan agreed in January 2019; and
· Action in relation to tenant and leaseholder health and safety.
A number of areas of concern, particularly in relation to the delivery of the council’s capital programme and the recovery actions linked to tenants and leaseholders’ health and safety, were raised in the report and by Members at the meeting. Although the Improvement Plan was set up for an 18 month period, running from 1 April 2019 to 30 September 2020, it was very disappointing to see such slow progress over the first reporting period.
These issues were explored in greater detail in the EKH options report that was also considered separately at this meeting. Cabinet indicated that the continued poor performance in these critical areas added weight to the reasons for the preferred option to return the management of council housing to the council’s direct control.
Councillor Campbell spoke under Council Procedure Rule 20.1.
Councillor Whitehead proposed, Councillor Albon seconded and Members noted the contents of the EKH performance report.
193 East Kent Housing Q1 Performance Report for 2019/20 PDF 203 KB
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Deborah Upton, Chief Executive of East Kent Housing introduced the item and made the following points:
Members of the Panel made comments and asked questions as detailed below:
In response Ms Upton and Mr Matt Gough, Director of Customer Services said the following:
Councillor Game, Cabinet Member for Housing and Safer Neighbourhoods added that cabinet was in the process of preparing an options report that was to be considered on 17 October.
Thereafter Members noted the report.