Decision details

City Square Highway Works

Reference: D55562

Decision Maker: Director of City Development

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

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

Decision:

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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