Sarah Booker-Lewis
Local Democracy Reporter at Brighton and Hove News
#LDReporter covering @BrightonHoveCC for @BHCityNews @BrightonArgus @BBCSussex @MoreSussex @GHRSussex @SussexWorld She/Her email: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
brightonandhovenews.org | Sarah Booker-Lewis
The housing repairs backlog for council properties in Brighton and Hove has halved in the past year. The Regulator of Social Housing criticised Brighton and Hove City Council for the backlog last year when the number of outstanding routine repairs open for more than 28 days stood at 9,653. The number in March was 4,134 – a fall of more than 5,600 since last June, according to Martin Reid, the council’s director of homes and investment.
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theargus.co.uk | Sarah Booker-Lewis
The special meeting of Brighton and Hove City Council was called by four Green councillors and an Independent and is due to be held on Monday (June 23). They want to discuss the potential effects of government plans to reduce welfare spending by £4.8 billion a year by narrowing the criteria for personal independence payments (PIP) and reducing health condition-related universal credit.
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1 week ago |
theargus.co.uk | Sarah Booker-Lewis
Brighton and Hove City Council moved its customer service teams out of the two town halls and into the Jubilee Library, Hove Library and three family hubs last month. But union official Diana Leach, joint branch secretary of the Unison branch, said there had been a lack of training for people in the new roles expected of them.
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1 week ago |
theargus.co.uk | Sarah Booker-Lewis
2 1/1 Tight spending controls enabled Brighton and Hove City Council to end the past financial year in the black by just over £1 million. The council said last summer that it was on course for a £10 million deficit for the financial year which ended on Monday, March 31. But the Labour administration imposed a hiring freeze and the council received more money than expected from business rates and benefited from “significant one-off resources”.
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1 week ago |
brightonandhovenews.org | Sarah Booker-Lewis
Tight spending controls enabled Brighton and Hove City Council to end the past financial year in the black by just over £1 million. The council said last summer that it was on course for a £10 million deficit for the financial year which ended on Monday 31 March. But the Labour administration imposed a hiring freeze and the council received more money than expected from business rates and benefited from “significant one-off resources”.
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