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Housing & Leisure Overview and Scrutiny Committee Draft Work Programme 2025/26 |
Role and Remit: To scrutinise Housing and Leisure (including Culture)
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Committee Meeting - Wednesday 11 June 2025 at 10am |
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Strategic Leisure Review Update |
Progress Update – Jo Ireland, AD Culture, Leisure, Archives & Libraries |
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Leisure & Culture Priorities |
Performance update on 2024/25 priorities and any new priorities for 2025/26 – Jo Ireland & Will Boardman |
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Housing Performance |
Performance and Service Improvement Annual Report – Andrew Rowe & Will Boardman |
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Joint Venture Development |
Update on development of Business Plan, Member Agreement and Land Transfer Agreements etc – Hannah Heinemann |
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Housing Improvements & Regulatory Update |
Update on Housing Improvement Board key actions – Andrew Rowe, AD Housing |
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Complaints |
Annual Complaints Self-Assessment, and dashboard summary of complaints handling including Ombudsman cases – Andrew Rowe |
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Work Programme 2025-26 |
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Mid Cycle Briefing - Friday 25 July 2025 at 10am |
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Committee Meeting - Tuesday 23 September 2025 at 10am |
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Progress Update – Jo Ireland, AD Culture, Leisure, Archives & Libraries |
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Libraries |
Annual Review of Libraries – Hazel Smith, Head of Libraries |
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Grounds Maintenance Policy Task Group Review |
Task Group draft final report |
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Housing Improvements & Regulatory Update |
Update on Housing Improvement Board key actions – Andrew Rowe, AD Housing |
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Complaints |
Dashboard summary of complaints handling including Ombudsman cases |
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Work Programme 2025-26 |
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Mid Cycle Briefing - Thursday 30 October 2025 at 10am |
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Committee Meeting - Monday 1 December 2025 at 10am |
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Performance Update |
Performance and Service Improvement Bi-Annual Update – Will Boardman |
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Housing Fees and Charges Policy Task Group Review |
Task Group draft final report |
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Housing Improvements & Regulatory Update |
Update on Housing Improvement Board key actions – Andrew Rowe, AD Housing |
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Complaints |
Dashboard summary of complaints handling including Ombudsman cases |
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Work Programme 2025-26 |
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Mid Cycle Briefing - Wednesday 21 January 2026 at 10am |
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Committee Meeting - Tuesday 3 March 2026 at 10am |
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Compensation Policy Task Group Review |
Task Group draft final report |
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Housing Improvements & Regulatory Update |
Update on Housing Improvement Board key actions – Andrew Rowe, AD Housing |
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Complaints |
Dashboard summary of complaints handling including Ombudsman cases |
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Draft Work Programme 2026-27 |
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Mid Cycle Briefing - Monday 22 April 2026 at 10am |
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Possible future items:
Housing Dashboard regular updates (voids; repairs etc)
Tenants Feedback – Attendance of Chair of Tenants Association
Leisure Investment Strategy – Phases I & II
Executive Performance Report - Quarter 3 2024-25:
Primary Indicator - CD11 Average re-let time in days (standard re-lets in month)
Homes are vacant for longer between tenants while energy efficiency and renovation works are carried out. A very small number of homes that had been unoccupied for some time are being brought back into use, which skews this measure upwards. Benchmarking across local authority landlords at the end of Q3 places North Yorkshire in the fourth quartile. Average re-let times increased from October (135.00 days) to December (142.07 days)
Benchmarking Data – 2024/25: Q2: 90.62 Q1: 73.52 2023/24 52.1 days 2022/23 51.9 days 2021/22 43.5 days
Primary Indicator - CD19 Households assessed as homeless per 1000 households
The proportion of households that were assessed and found to be homeless in Q3 was smaller than the previous quarter but above last year’s Q3 level. 347 households were accepted as homeless between October and December 2024, down from 414 in Q2. The household total is based on the latest ONS projection, which estimates the number of households in each local authority area for a given year. (For 2024, this is 280,548.) This tends to exaggerate change between calendar years, i.e. between Q3 and Q4 each year. Regional and national data reporting lag: the latest comparison data show that in Q1 2024/25 North Yorkshire’s rate was about two thirds of the mean for unitary authorities (2.00)