Housing & Leisure Overview and Scrutiny Committee

Work Programme 2025/26

 

Role and Remit: To scrutinise Housing and Leisure (including Culture)

 

Committee Meeting - Wednesday 11 June 2025 at 10am

Subject

Description

Housing Improvements & Regulatory Update

Progress update on implementation of the improvement plan – Andrew Rowe

Housing Annual Review

Housing Performance & Service Improvement Annual Report, including annual complaints self-assessment and summary of tenant involvement – Andrew Rowe

Lettable Standard Review

Task Group Final Report and draft revised Lettable Standard

Draft Compensation Policy

First draft for O&S feedback -  Vicky Young

Draft Disrepair Policy

First draft for O&S feedback -  Vicky Young

Draft Housing Delivery Plan Consultation

Joint Venture Development – Verbal Update – Hannah Heinemann

Lunch Break (12 – 12:30pm)

Scarborough Football Ground

Update on condition of pitch and way forward – Nic Harne / Jo Ireland

Leisure & Culture Performance

Performance update – Will Boardman & Jo Ireland

Homeless & Rough Sleeping Strategy

First draft Homeless and Rough Sleeping Strategy – Kim Robertshaw

Work Programme 2025-26

Work Programme 2025-26

Mid Cycle Briefing - Tuesday 22 July 2025 at 11am

 

Committee Meeting - Tuesday 23 September 2025 at 10am

Subject

Description

Leisure Investment Strategy Update

To include Richmond Pool options appraisal review – David Ashbridge, Head of Operations, Active Leisure

Libraries

Annual Review of Libraries – Hazel Smith, Head of Libraries

HRA Policy Framework

Next Steps – an overview of work to date and suggested next steps for further member engagement - Andrew Rowe, AD Housing

Housing Improvements & Regulatory Update

Update on Housing Improvement Board key actions – Andrew Rowe, AD Housing

Complaints

Dashboard summary of complaints handling including Ombudsman cases

Grounds Maintenance Review

Verbal update on ongoing Task Group Review

Work Programme 2025-26

 

Mid Cycle Briefing - Thursday 30 October 2025 at 10am

 

Committee Meeting - Monday 1 December 2025 at 10am

Subject

Description

Libraries Strategy Review

Overview and update on Strategy review -Hazel Smith, Head of Libraries

Performance Update

Performance and Service Improvement Bi-Annual Update – Will Boardman

Grounds Maintenance Policy Review

Task Group draft final report

Housing Improvements & Regulatory Update

Update on Housing Improvement Board key actions – Andrew Rowe, AD Housing

Complaints

Dashboard summary of complaints handling including Ombudsman cases

Work Programme 2025-26

 

Mid Cycle Briefing - Wednesday 21 January 2026 at 10am

 

Committee Meeting - Tuesday 3 March 2026 at 10am

Subject

Description

Strategic Leisure Review Bi-annual Update

Progress Update – Jo Ireland, AD Culture, Leisure, Archives & Libraries

Housing Improvements & Regulatory Update

Update on Housing Improvement Board key actions – Andrew Rowe, AD Housing

Complaints

Dashboard summary of complaints handling including Ombudsman cases

 

 

Draft Work Programme 2026-27

 

Mid Cycle Briefing - Monday 22 April 2026 at 10am

 

 

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)