Decision details

The Director of Childrens & Families agreed to:
a) Set the overall project budget for the development of the East Leeds Free School at £30m and provide ‘approval to spend’ on £22.63m, noting that £7.37m has been previously approved under the ‘early works’ programme. Draw down of the budget will be subject to future design cost reports and approvals at the appropriate juncture.

b) Note, the full scheme budget figure of £30m is inclusive of all aspects of the project with the exception of the required off-site Highways works and land purchase. It includes; the construction contract figure, client held contingency, furniture and equipment, service connections etc.

c) Note, provisional ‘approval to spend’ was granted at the September 2019 Executive Board and identified a budget between £25m and £30m, which was subject to development of the scheme.

d) Note the programme dates identified in section 3.2 of this report, in relation to the implementation of this decision, represents the critical path for project success and must be adhered to where possible.

e) Note that the officer responsible for implementation is the Head of Service Learning Systems.