Decision details

Commissioning of professional advice to proceed with the outline feasibility work for net carbon zero affordable housing at the initial selected council owned sites as listed in the appendix to the cabinet decision 28 January 2021 and any other suita

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Decision Maker: Director of Economy and Place (Historic)

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

The Council is keen to progress the investigation of delivering affordable housing as quickly as possible. Expert advice is required to inform decisions regarding the feasibility of housing schemes on selected council owned sites across Herefordshire.

• The council entered into a Development and Regeneration Partnership (DRP) with Engie in June 2018. Engie have the expertise in this area and are able to accelerate progression and meet the timescales required to feed into the planning for bringing forward net carbon zero affordable housing on council owned land and other third party land across the county that may become available

Contact: Nigel Thomas, Senior Project Manager Email: Nigel.Thomas@herefordshire.gov.uk.

Publication date: 04/02/2021

Date of decision: 04/02/2021

Accompanying Documents:

Commissioning of professional advice to proceed with the outline feasibility work for net carbon zero affordable housing at the initial selected council owned sites as listed in the appendix to the cabinet decision 28 January 2021 and any other suitable sites in third party ownership that may be available across the county at a cost of up to £71K PDF 254 KB