Housing & Leisure Overview and Scrutiny Committee

Draft Work Programme 2026/27

 

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

 

Committee Meeting - Wednesday 10 June 2026 at 10am (Deadline for Papers: 29th May)

Subject

Description

Leisure & Culture Performance

Performance Update – Will Boardman, Head of Strategy and Performance & Jo Ireland, AD Culture & Leisure

 

 

Housing Strategy Review

Andrew Rowe & Hannah Lawty

Homelessness & Rough Sleeping

Update on the implementation of the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2025-2030

Housing Annual Review

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

Housing Improvements & Regulatory Update

Progress update on implementation of the improvement plan – Andrew Rowe

Complaints

Dashboard summary of complaints handling including Ombudsman cases

Work Programme 2026-27

Work Programme 2026-27

Mid Cycle Briefing - Tuesday 29 July 2026 at 10am

 

Committee Meeting - Tuesday 22 September 2026 at 10am (Deadline for Papers: 9th Sept)

Subject

Description

Leisure Investment Strategy Update

Jo Ireland, AD Culture & Leisure

Libraries

Annual Review of Libraries – Hazel Smith, Head of Libraries

Asset Management Strategy

Update on progress against the Strategy’s measurable outcomes – Andrew Rowe, AD for Housing

Q1 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 2026-27

 

Mid Cycle Briefing - Wednesday 29 October 2026 at 10am

Consideration of the Work Programme

Committee Meeting - Monday 1 December 2026 at 10am (Deadline for Papers: 18th Nov)

Subject

Description

Leisure Service Performance Update

Performance and Service Improvement Bi-Annual Update, including update on economic impact of Scarborough Air Theatre – Richard Mair, Strategy & Performance Lead

Cultural Strategy

Annual update on progress against the Cultural Strategy’s strategic priorities – Jo Ireland, AD Culture & Leisure

Active Leisure

Update on implementation of new pricing structure for NYC’s Active Leisure facilities – Jo Ireland, AD for Culture & Leisure

Joint Venture

Post implementation update - Hannah Heinemann, Head of Housing Delivery and Partnerships

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Q2 Housing Improvements & Regulatory Update

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

Complaints

Dashboard summary of complaints handling including Ombudsman cases – Andrew Rowe, AD Housing & Vicky Young,

Work Programme 2025-26

 

Mid Cycle Briefing - Thursday 21 January 2027 at 10am

 

Committee Meeting - Tuesday 2 March 2027 at 10am (Deadline for Papers: 17th Feb)

Subject

Description

Strategic Leisure Review

Jo Ireland, AD Culture & Leisure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Q3 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 - Friday 23 April 2027 at 10am

 

 

Possible future items:

Tenants Feedback – Attendance of Chair of Tenants Association

Leisure Investment Strategy – Phase II

 

Relevant Performance Indicators:

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)