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Learning fast and focusing on housing

by Frank le Duc
Friday 13 Jul, 2018 at 6:52AM
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Homes and health top new Brighton and Hove council leader’s ‘to do’ list

Councillor Daniel Yates

It’s just under two months since I was elected to become the leader of the council and it’s fair to say that it has been an enormous learning curve for me.

I’m not a career politician, and many of the complex relationships that the council depends on both with staff and partners are delicate and require time and energy to make sure that our services flourish and that our partnership approaches are successful.

I have met many colleagues, partners, residents groups, business leaders and developers in the last two months, whom I had either not encountered before as a ward councillor, or with whom I had only previously been in telephone or email correspondence.

To everyone I would like to say a massive thank you for being so patient with my ‘beginners’ questions.

I said when I took over that I wanted the council’s reputation to be of an open and transparent organisation where possible.

So many colleagues are already taking up this challenge, and it has been heartening to see some great positive feedback coming through from service users, visitors and residents over recent weeks.

Across the next few months we will, as an administration, be continuing to work alongside officers to embed this approach more clearly across all services, but we have other urgent priorities too.

Of these clearly the most pressing is the housing crisis. As a city we don’t have enough appropriate accommodation for people at most stages of their lives.

We have some strong political consensus on the council to address this, so it is imperative that all parts of the council’s services can play their part.

By ensuring that we accelerate our plans to reduce our dependency on privately owned emergency and temporary accommodation, build more council homes, push forward on the delivery of the joint venture homes and create more hidden homes from the council’s own property resources, we have the chance to genuinely change people’s experience of homelessness and poor-quality accommodation and enhance their lives and future life chances.

But for now I just wanted publicly to thank all staff and council partners for the step change they are already starting to deliver.

Being council leader isn’t easy, but being proud of the response of council staff is.

Councillor Daniel Yates is the Labour leader of Brighton and Hove City Council.

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  1. SFR says:
    7 years ago

    While you “we accelerate our plans to reduce our dependency on privately owned emergency and temporary accommodation “ I suggest you came up the radical new approaches to addressing the pervasive, persistent problems associated with hostels in Central Hove that are caused by the negligent and irresponsible management of council supported private “B&Bs” and “special housing projects”. Council officers (Raw, Reid, Persey, Hobden and others) all stick their head in sand, have the audacity to ignore, “disagree” with, and invalidate residents’ opinions and experiences, and insist on sticking with failing measures – long-term failing measures. The very “cosy” relationships between BHCC and some provider’s is troubling and needs to be thoroughly scrutinized, as does the eye-watering amount of money spent without contracts, without assurances of value, and without any protection of local communities from the fallout. You are welcome to attend meeting on 30 July at 6pm at Hove Town Hall. Would be good for your learning curve Daniel.

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  2. Daniel Harris says:
    7 years ago

    Good to read a leader actually acknowledge privately owned emergency and temporary accomodation needs to be phased out. Yes we need wholey owned inhouse emergency and temporary accomodation.

    We know the costs are going up, this is costing us services because of poor previous management across administrations of all colours.

    This is a huge task, and should not be taken or spoken about lightly. I see this acknowledgement as just the start. Lets see some ambition. A few units here are there will not solve the issue alone.

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