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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