Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member for Housing and Sustainability providing the Panel with an update on the steps taken implementing the agreed actions for improving fire safety in the Council owned high rise accommodation, attached.

The Committee considered the report of the Cabinet Member for Housing and Sustainability providing the Panel with an update on the steps taken implementing the agreed actions for improving fire safety in the Council owned high rise accommodation.

RESOLVED:

(i)  that the Committee be provided with details of the scale of the rewiring works to install fire resistant cable supports in the City’s tower blocks;

(ii)  that the Cabinet Member investigate the benefits of carrying out a private sector housing condition survey; and

(iii)  that the Cabinet Member work with the Tenants Resource Group to consider fire safety issues and develop proposals to minimise the risk of a fire.