We have identified 50 evidence-based social value themes for Broxtowe Borough Council in East Midlands across 38 service areas. These insights are derived from the latest council meeting transcripts and can inform your social value strategy for bids and tenders.
Housing compliance workload
The housing service reported significant outstanding compliance work, including 2,389 fire remedial actions, 540 tenants still to be contacted for data verification and 450 outstanding stock condition…
“Speaker 15: Thank you very much, chair. Yeah. So from a tenant data project viewpoint, officers continue to contact our general needs tenants to ensur…”
Homes England audit success
Members welcomed a positive Homes England compliance audit for the Felton Close scheme in Chilwell, confirming no breaches and strengthening Broxtowe's reputation as a preferred development partner. T…
“Speaker 12: Well, thank you very much, Chad. Basically, these audits are completed by Homes England for a number of reasons, and we've had a number of…”
Council housing pipeline
The council set out four Eastwood sites - 52 Church Street, Lawrence Avenue garages, 84 Church Street and Cross Street - expected to deliver around 13 homes, with Homes England funding covering at lea…
“Speaker 12: There are four sites, on the paper. It's 52 Church Street, Lawrence Avenue, Garages, 84 Church Street, and Cross Street. All of these sche…”
Housing income policies refreshed
Cabinet approved refreshed financial inclusion, income collection and rent setting policies. The key operational emphasis remains tenant support to pay rent, avoid arrears and improve financial litera…
“Speaker 13: Thank you, chair. Yeah. So we've got three, policies that sort of grouped together here in this report, all relating to, our income collec…”
Monitor Renters Rights rollout
Cabinet asked Overview and Scrutiny to monitor implementation of the Renters Rights Act policy changes at future meetings and bring regular updates and any needed revisions back to cabinet. This creat…
“Speaker 0: What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna ask further recommendation. We ask our overview of scrutiny, in particular, to monitor progress on the imple…”
Outline decision on Toton West housing
The committee considered an outline application for up to 420 homes at Toton West and resolved that, subject to highways objections being removed and a Section 106 agreement, planning permission would…
“So, uh with that, I'm going to move on to the agenda. So, firstly, apologies for any absences. >> Um I've got apologies for Councillor Steve Carr, and…”
Borough-wide HMO SPD adopted
Cabinet agreed to adopt the updated HMO Supplementary Planning Document so it can be used as a material consideration for applications across the borough, not only the current Article 4 area. The upda…
“Speaker 16: Thank you, chair. So members may recall in March, the report this report to cabinet with proposed updates to the HMO SPD. These changes we…”
New local plan work begins
Cabinet approved starting work on a new Broxtowe local plan under the new regime, backed by £108,000 of funding and a 30-month process. The plan is intended to fill a policy gap, update the 2019 Part …
“Speaker 16: Okay. Thank you, chair. So as set out in the report, we're seeking approval to start commencing work on the new Bloxdope local plan. So th…”
Need for holistic site planning
Members and residents pressed for a single holistic approach to the whole strategic site rather than separate piecemeal applications. Concerns were raised that splitting West, East and North could und…
“Um the lack of any holistic approach, of course, also extends to the road and highway network and infrastructure. Uh the B6003 Stapleford stroke Toton…”
Broadgate toilet future options
Members asked the committee to consider the future of the Broadgate Park public toilets due to repeated anti-social behaviour, abuse of staff, and poor condition. Options discussed included closure, t…
“So, this is a report to ask, maybe for overview and scrutiny's consideration, in terms of whether you would like to consider this as a a project to so…”
Temporary closure to be explored
The committee resolved to ask Emma to speak to the leader and chief executive about temporarily closing the Broadgate toilets as an immediate response to safeguarding and anti-social behaviour concern…
“So we've got a couple of comments on it. So one of the key things and Emma sort of said to her or somebody else said to her is that we need to be very…”
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