Decision details

The Chief Officer Highways and Transportation;
a) Increased the scope of works of the Advance Works contract to include the refurbishment of units 17 and 18 on Dark Neville Street and the soft strip of the former Shababs restaurant.
b) Extended the Advance Works contract programme to include the above works and also extend the traffic management arrangements as a result of the utilities diversions works on Bishopgate Street incurred as a result of delays in statutory undertaker availability.
c) Approved the Neville Street and Bishopgate Street lighting and cladding designs and CCTV column design, noting that the lighting on Bishopgate Street will be delivered as part of the main works.
d) Provided approval to accept the decorative lighting on Neville Street as a new LCC asset to be maintained by Street Lighting and funded from the monies originally allocated for the cladding on Neville Street which will become a Network Rail asset upon completion of the Neville Street works.
e) Provided authority to vary the contract under Contract Procedure Rule 21.7 to increase the value of the Advanced Works contract in accordance with Rule 10 of the Financial Regulations to deliver the Neville Street lighting and cladding works, the refurbishment of units 17 and 18 on Dark Neville Street, drainage works and the soft strip of the former Shababs restaurant. The total cost of the Advance Works contract is now £3.76m of which £2.89m was previously approved in April 2022.
f) Injected authority to spend of £10.451m as a result of inflationary cost increases to the target cost of the main works funded by WYCA Transforming Cities Fund subject to final Combined Authority Committee approval on the 8th December 2022.