Monday, 19 December 2016

Campaigners Catch Council Out Over Social Housing Commitments

A London borough council failed “for years” to monitor whether developers were providing promised social housing. The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has found that when imposing conditions for providing social housing through Section 106 Agreements, Southwark Council failed to implement a structured procedure for supervising compliance. To the LGO the council failed to:
·         Properly check compliance with housing provision conditions under section 106 Agreements.
·         Explain how it checks compliance.
·         Explain why it had not undertaken a borough wide audit to check compliance with Section 106 Agreements long after completion of developments.

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