That the Director of Regeneration & Place agrees to

1. Approve the draft Housing Allocations Procedure as contained in Appendix 2 and to use this as the basis to commence a formal public consultation.

2. Commence detailed further feasibility work arising from the review on consideration of the potential benefits and efficiency of future operating models across the five local authority areas, which will then be subject to a further report to the Housing Committee.

3. Approve the virement of £70,000 from the existing Capital Programme money allocated to Housing Services projects to be used to support the purchase of a new allocations IT system in 2021-22.

4. Approve the establishment of a Property Pool Plus Co-ordinator post to work across the Merseyside sub-region, jointly funded for a fixed term of 2 years between all five local authority areas with a contribution of £15,000 per local authority per annum.