Decision details

(KDGE) (1) Use Community Housing Funds allocated by Government to (a) approve a grant of £50,000 to Action in Rural Sussex (AiRS) to set up a Sussex Wide Community Housing Hub, (b) approve funding of £25,000 for Eastbourne Borough Council’s share of a post jointly funded with Lewes District Council to facilitate the Community Housing Fund (CHF). (c) Note following expenditure of items 1 and 2 above that Eastbourne Borough Council have £290,894 available to deliver further community led housing initiatives; (2) Grant delegated authority to the Director of Service Delivery in consultation with the portfolio holder to take all steps necessary for and incidental to the implementation of recommendations 1(a) and (b) above; and to allocate the uncommitted sum of £290,894 on such community led housing initiatives as they consider appropriate.