All remaining funding must therefore be used to meet legal and contractual commitments and all other activity has had to be put on hold, including the current phases of acquisition in Newington St. Andrew's, Ings and Preston Road.
The Gateway team has informed the residents affected and is putting in place a range of measures to support people through this period of uncertainty. Hull City Council is doing everything possible to secure alternative funding and in the meantime has allocated a limited amount of emergency funding to allow those residents who were due to move before Christmas to do so. This decision to re-direct funding from a number of other capital projects has been taken with the support of all political groups.
Laura Carr, Hull City Council's Acting Head of Service for Housing Investment and Renewal said: “Our top priority will be to provide information and support for residents who are in the current phases of acquisition.
“We do understand that residents whose homes are proposed for demolition or refurbishment in future phases will also have concerns. At this stage, the long-term plans are unchanged. Whilst phases that were planned for this year and next are clearly affected by the spending reductions the timing of phases beyond next year will depend, as it always did, on the availability of funding at that time.”
