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The money for Swindon Borough Council, allocated from the government's Rough Sleeping Winter Pressures Funding, comes to £96,793. ... Janine Howarth, cabinet member for housing of the Labour-led ...
The LHA system is a form of housing benefit administered, along with council tax benefit, by the local authority in whose area the property being rented lies. For those areas where there is two-tier local government Housing Benefit is administered by the district or borough council layer of local government.
As a unitary authority, Swindon Borough Council has the powers and functions of both a non-metropolitan county and district council. In its capacity as a district council it is a billing authority collecting Council Tax and business rates, it processes local planning applications, and it is responsible for housing , waste collection and ...
The bedroom tax is a United Kingdom welfare policy whereby tenants living in public housing (also called council or social housing) with rooms deemed "spare" experience a reduction in Housing Benefit, resulting in them being obliged to fund this reduction from their incomes, move home, or face rent arrears and potential eviction by their landlord (be that the local authority or a housing ...
The council said this was due to a law that says the building can only be declared an asset if it has been used for the purpose of furthering community well-being, currently or in the "recent past".
The companies of Plessey and Vickers assisted by agreeing to employ over 1,500 of those moving to Swindon; the Council funded the creation of industrial estates and housing developments. In the period 1951–1981, Swindon's population grew by 70 percent, [3] "some 58 per cent higher than the national average over the same period". [1]
Housing Benefit is a means-tested social security benefit in the United Kingdom that is intended to help meet housing costs for rented accommodation. It is the second biggest item in the Department for Work and Pensions ' budget after the state pension, totalling £23.8 billion in 2013–14.
It is the largest strategic allocation within the adopted Swindon Borough Local Plan 2026. [2] It will comprise 8,000 new homes, 40 hectares for employment, transport improvements, a new secondary school and primary schools , together with retail, health, community and leisure facilities, including a new district centre. [ 2 ]