The Allocation Policy for Independent Living schemes will set out how the Council intends to allocate Independent Living accommodation and the draft will be presented to Executive for adoption.

1.         That the Allocations Policy for Independent Living Schemes in Central Bedfordshire, at Appendix A to the report, be adopted as the Allocation Scheme for all properties available within Central Bedfordshire where a care and support service is provided within an extra care / independent living environment.  This policy shall apply to all providers.

2.         To authorise the Director of Social Care, Health and Housing, in consultation with the Executive Member for Social Care and Housing to:

(a)       allocate properties in accordance with the Allocations Policy for Independent Living schemes;

(b)       amend or vary the detailed wording of the Allocations Policy, where to do so does not change the strategic intent or overarching aims of the Policy, so as to ensure the Policy is and remains effective in operational terms, to achieve the Policy objectives over time, taking account of considerations related to supply and demand; and

(c)        develop and implement monitoring arrangements to ensure that the aims of the Policy are achieved and to support the Council’s duty to promote equality, in line with the Equalities Assessment, which shall be kept under review.

3.         that the Policy be noted, including the sales / lettings processes prescribed in the Policy, which will be an appendix to the Council’s main Allocations Policy (forming the Council’s Allocations Scheme), and shall be applied first to lettings / sales of apartments at Priory View, Dunstable.  The Policy shall be reviewed, in advance of its application to sales and lettings at Greenfields, Leighton Buzzard.