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By Councillor Laidlaw - Community Factoring

Meeting: 15/10/2020 - City of Edinburgh Council (Item 9)

By Councillor Laidlaw - Community Factoring

By Councillor Laidlaw - Community Factoring

“Council

1)       Recognises the economic challenges the coronavirus pandemic has wrought and the likelihood of redundancies and increased unemployment as part of the economic recession;

2)       Notes that factoring of new developments, especially those in mixed tenure, has often been challenging to enforce and there has been a lack of clarity as to whom holds responsibility for certain actions between Council and factors.

3)       Recognises the challenges that Council Parks and Greenspaces teams face in maintaining verges and borders in traditional social housing schemes.

4)       Notes the opportunity to outsource some maintenance work to community-led social enterprise factoring schemes.

5)       Recognises the interest expressed in such an initiative by the Craigmillar Neighbourhood Alliance, and the offer of a pilot scheme at no cost to the Council.

6)       Agrees a report is produced by the Directorate of Place Management for the next meeting of the Finance and Resources committee to examine how Council procurement could support the development and implementation of a community factoring scheme and what steps local groups would need to undertake to be able to tender.”

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