Civic Signal GUEST
Research Enrich Follows
BROWSE
Postcodes Councils Care boards Representatives Suppliers Coverage
ROWS
API PATHS
Docs Sign in
Browsing as a guest. A free key raises the rate limit.

Decision - Housing, Health & Safety Update.

Brighton and Hove Housing & New Homes Committee Decided 24 Jan 2024 approved GET /api/coverage
Decision maker
Housing & New Homes Committee
Report author
Martin Reid
Published
25 Jan 2024
Reference
7127

As published

the council's own words, unedited

In light of significant changes in management and maintenance of council housing and legislative and regulatory changes impacting social housing landlords following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the Housing Management service has undertaken a review of our approach toward health & safety compliance and assurance for council homes. This report updates Committee on progress against key Housing health & safety review outcomes and actions to date.

RESOLVED: 2.1 That Committee notes the Housing, Health & Safety Update Report and current engagement with the Regulator of Social Housing.

Parsed from the document

gpt-5.6-luna-2026-07-09 · 10805/1835 tokens · 12868ms · parsed 9 Sep 2026 12:12
Everything below was read out of a PDF by a model It is useful and it is not authoritative. The document it came from is linked in the rail, and where the two disagree the document is right.

Brighton & Hove City Council reported progress on health and safety compliance across its council housing, including gas, electrical, fire, asbestos, lift, water, smoke and carbon monoxide safety. The committee was also updated on the Council’s engagement with the Regulator of Social Housing regarding its repairs backlog and compliance position.

Outcome
approved
Recommendation
That Committee notes the Housing, Health & Safety Update Report and current engagement with the Regulator of Social Housing.
Financial impact
The report has no direct financial implications. The 2024/25 budget includes £14.905 million across capital and revenue for compliance investment, while the 2023/24 capital and revenue investments are met from existing budget resources.
Ward affected
city-wide
Decision maker
Housing & New Homes Committee
Date in document
24 Jan 2024

Stakeholders named

parsed
Council tenants and residentsLeaseholdersRegulator of Social HousingEast Sussex Fire & Rescue ServiceHousing OmbudsmanHousing & New Homes Committee

Next steps

parsed
  • Continue engagement with the Regulator of Social Housing and provide further information on the repairs backlog and health and safety compliance.
  • Bring further updates to Housing & New Homes Committee following the Regulator of Social Housing’s consideration.
  • Complete the communal asbestos re-inspection programme by April 2024.
  • Retest all domestic and communal electrical installations over three years by December 2026.
  • Install battery-powered carbon monoxide detectors in all homes with a gas supply by the end of April 2024.
  • Continue resident engagement through Housing Area Panels, Homing In, consultation meetings and other resident groups.

Precedents

not built
"Decided elsewhere" is not built Finding the same decision in other councils needs semantic matching over decision text, which is part of the search rewrite. Until then, the council's own decisions list is the way through.
Documents
Who voted
Not extracted
Recorded votes are published in the minutes but we do not yet parse them into a direction per councillor. This page will not guess at one.
Watch this
Not built
Following a decision would ask you for a channel — email or webhook — at the point of following, with no default. Neither channel exists yet.
GET /api/coverage