Agenda item - Chair's Communications

67.1       The Chair gave the following communications:

“Anti-social behaviour is one of the most important issue for tenants of social housing. It damages lives and communities and its impact can be profound and far reaching. Our Tenancy Team work in close partnership with the Police and Community Safety Team to deal with anti-social behaviour within the city.

The team works to do all it reasonably can to prevent crime and disorder in our housing stock and works with new legislation that has radically altered the powers the council has to tackle anti-social behaviour.

Please let your Community Engagement Officer know if you would be interested in attending one of the Enforcement workshops being arranged by the team which share information on how they work and deal with this type of behaviour”

67.2       Councillor Simson requested that more information should be provided on how the Council as a social landlord would interact with residents, beyond just council tenants, to get a wider picture of the City’s needs and that Woodingdean had experienced communication difficulties.

67.3       Ododo Dafe, Head of Income Involvement & Improvement, responded that Housing would take the lead and report to Housing Customer Services.

67.4       Martin Reid, Assistant Director of Housing, added that the issue would be taken to a senior level if there were a pattern of non-responses to consistent problems.