Reference: D55562
Decision Maker: Director of City Development
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Approval to inject and provide authority to spend the capital into the Highways programme to implement the City Square Closure (Highways) scheme approved by Executive Board in April 2021
The Chief Officer, Highways and Transportation;
· Noted the previously approved injection £7.1m and authority to spend of £3.8m on development design and enabling works in May 2020 for City Square Highways and associated schemes.
· Injected the remaining funding of £4.726m giving a total scheme budget of £11.835m and authorise the expenditure £8.033m for the delivery of the City Square Highways phase and associated schemes funded from the remaining City Centre Package WY+TF, LCC borrowing, CRSTS (City Regional Sustainable Transport ) and S106.
· Approved the award of City Square Highway Scheme to Balfour Beatty Group Ltd T/A Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering, through the SCAPE2 Civil Engineering Framework, with a contract value of £4.084m.
Reason Key: Financial Impact>£500K;
Wards Affected: Hunslet and Riverside;
Other reasons / organisations consulted
Consultation on the scheme was undertaken in Aug/Sep 2021.
Contact: Ian Waite, Engineer 0113 3787398 Email: ian.waite@leeds.gov.uk.
Publication date: 15/08/2022
Date of decision: 23/08/2022
Effective from: 01/09/2022
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