Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æ and Bute Housing Emergency (Cllr Robin Currie)
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Minutes:
Cllr Currie notified to committee that the Council
has declared a housing emergency for Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æ and Bute and encouraged all
partners to attend a Council housing summit that is due to be held in October /
November to agree action on how this can be addressed. Morag added that as
housing has been identified as a priority in the ABOIP consultation and this
can be taken forward by the CPP MC in reference to the work of the Strategic
Housing Forum, which Morag attends, for good practice examples on how other
public sector partners are engaging on this subject.Ìý
Lynn noted she had had recent discussions with Pippa on the challenges
associated with the area housing for employees. Police Scotland have existing
housing estate that they may seek to sell but felt that needed to be approached
as a collective to try to identify how any available housing stock from partner
organisations can be reutilised by other partners, rather than falling into the
private market. Joe gave an example of this and noted that the new fire station
in Salen, Mull will be created from the refurbishment
of a no longer required NHS building. Had that property gone to the open market
it is unlikely the Fire Service would have been able to acquire it.
John advised that the scheduled timing of the housing summit dovetails
well with the ABOIP timescale and welcomed input from the Strategic Housing
Forum in advance of the summit.
ACTION - CPP team to meet with
representative from Strategic Housing Forum to get input in advance of the
Council housing summit.
Joe agreed radical ideas are need to solve the housing issues in the
area to support people to stay and work here.
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