Decision details

Decision details

Period 9 (Quarter 3) – 2016/17 Housing Revenue Account Budget Monitoring

Decision Maker: EXECUTIVE

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

The report sets out the financial position for 2016/17 as at the end of December 2016.

Decision:

1.      That the revenue forecast position to achieve a balanced budget with a contribution to HRA Reserves of £23.314M, thus strengthening the Council’s ability to invest and improve its stock of Council Houses, be approved.

2.      That the capital forecast position indicates a net outturn of £11.837M, against a budget of £15.589M, be approved.  It is proposed that £2.586M of future investment works are deferred to 2017/18.

3.      That General Fund (GF) assets at Havelock Road in Biggleswade and Greenacres in Dunstable be transferred to the HRA, generating the equivalent of a capital receipt of £1.575M to the GF and enabling the HRA to provide accommodation solutions that will avoid temporary accommodation costs.

4.      That Right to Buy (RtB) sales be monitored for the possible impact on predicted surpluses in the medium to longer term.

Report author: Denis Galvin

Publication date: 06/04/2017

Date of decision: 04/04/2017

Decided at meeting: 04/04/2017 - EXECUTIVE

Effective from: 14/04/2017

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