Issue details
Reducing Reliance on Bed and Breakfast Accommodation Use
The report outlines the financial pressures resulting from a sustained increase in the use of Bed and Breakfast (B & B) accommodation to meet a re-housing duty for homeless households approaching the Council, and proposes a solution to reduce the financial impact, the purchase of accommodation by the Housing Revenue Account.
Decision type: Key
Reason Key: Expenditure > £200,000;
Decision status: For Determination
Wards affected: (All Wards);
Notice of proposed decision first published: 02/07/2015
Open/Exempt: Open;
Decision due: 4 August 2015 by EXECUTIVE
Comment: Comments by 04/07/2015 to Contact Officer:
Lead member: Adults, Social Care & Housing Operations (HRA) - Executive Member
Lead director: Director of Social Care, Health and Housing
Contact: Nick Costin, Head of Housing Service Email: nick.costin@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk Tel: 0300 300 5219 nick.costin@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk Tel: 0300 300 5219.
Consultation process
Internally only.
Consultees
Relevant Officers and all Members (to be
confirmed)
Decisions
Agenda items
- 04/08/2015 - EXECUTIVE Reducing Reliance on Bed and Breakfast Accommodation Use 04/08/2015
Documents
- Reducing reliance on Bed and Breakfast accommodation use