Social Value Ideas for Tandridge District Council

RSH Inspection Compliance & Data Systems Gaps

Regulator (Homes and Communities Agency - RSH) inspection in July 2025 revealed two critical areas: (1) Compliance issues identified as most urgent, requiring immediate action; (2) Data and systems de…

“The most urgent issue to tackle for us were the compliance issues... The second area that they drew out was data and systems, which are, I think, to p…”

Q1 Housing Improvement Plan Budget Allocation

Committee approved revenue budget virement of £425,000 to create budget for housing improvement plan. Funding sourced from HRA budgeted surplus (reducing it from £6.207m to £5.78m) with small amount f…

“the budget of £425,000, most of this will be met from the budgeted HRA surplus and a small amount from existing budgets. So that means the budgeted su…”

Housing Stock Condition Survey Progress Tracking

The Housing Committee is overseeing a stock condition survey of council-owned properties. Current completion rate is 70% as of end December 2025, with a target to reach 80% by end of January 2026. The…

“We are at the moment at the end of December we'll be on 70% with a catch up in January. One of the problems is, of course, getting access to the homes…”

Housing Improvement Plan - Compliance & Systems Investment

Council is investing in rapid response to RSH inspection findings. Two additional IT consultants brought in from Westminster (with recent similar experience) to address fragmented data systems and cre…

“we've devoted resources from the transformation team, from IT, and brought in rapidly two additional IT consultants who've recently been working on si…”

Planning Application Refusal - Motion 1

First motion for refusal passed by committee. Refusal on grounds that proposal taken cumulatively with existing gypsy and traveller development in rural locality would result in over-concentration of …

“The proposal taken cumulatively with the existing gypsy and traveller development in the rural locality would result in an over concentration of trave…”

Planning Application Refusal - Motion 2

Second motion for refusal passed by committee. Refusal on grounds that site is located in unsustainable location without appropriate access to public transport services or local amenities, with limite…

“The site is located in an unsustainable location without appropriate access to public transport services or local amenities. With the limited active t…”

Planning Application Refusal - Motion 3

Third motion for refusal passed by committee. Refusal on grounds that proposal fails to meet exceptions under paragraphs 154 and 155 of NPPF, site has lawful use as non-residential smallholding for ag…

“The proposal would fail to meet the exceptions under paragraph 154 or 155 of the NPPF. The site has lawful use as a non-residential small holding for …”

LGR transition funding approved

The committee recommended additional revenue and capital spend to support the Tandridge transition programme through to March 2027, covering CAP programme work, household support and service capacity.…

“So this is the regular updates on local government reorganisation and the Tandries transition programme. It details progress with local government reo…”

2025-26 outturn underspend

Members approved the 2025-26 financial outturn, showing an underspend of £1.061 million. The report also noted major drivers of budget variance including grant income, planning income, overspends in c…

“Therefore there's no mitigation actions required. Although there were many variants to the budget 2526, the main drivers on the spend are 756 ,000 ext…”