Decision details

1.    That an additional capital grant contribution of £25,000 to Trinity Winchester from the HRA’s New Homes unallocated sites capital budget to support the delivery of 11 units of affordable social housing, be approved.

2.    That the Service Lead: Legal be authorised to enter into a grant agreement between Trinity Winchester and the Council which provides the grant terms and conditions, inclusive of project delivery milestones, timeframes, and any clawback arrangements.

The report provided information to support an additional and final capital grant contribution to Trinity Winchester of £25,000 from the HRA New Homes unallocated sites capital budget to support the delivery of 11 units of affordable social housing.

A further contribution from the council will complete Trinity Winchester’s funding appeal to build a bespoke affordable social housing scheme for the most excluded rough sleepers. The scheme will help the Council to deliver on the government’s commitment to end rough sleeping by 2027.

The funding contribution also supports the aims and objectives of the Council’s Preventing Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2019 – 2024 with its pledge to eradicate rough sleeping by 2023 (except by choice).

Refusing the Trinity Winchester funding request had been considered and rejected as once completed the project would support the Council to deliver on its statutory homelessness duties and offer a viable longer term local housing offer to those rough sleeping.