Issue - decisions

Approval to Proceed with the Armley Gyratory Improvement Scheme

03/08/2022 - Approval to Proceed with the Armley Gyratory Improvement Scheme

The Chief Officer Highways & Transportation;

a) Noted the previously approved injection and authority to spend of £3.58m in May 2020 for the development of Armley Gyratory Highways Phase

b) Injected the remaining funding of £27.93m and authorise the expenditure £27.93m for the delivery of Highways phase and development of the Structures design ahead of a second approval to proceed process in January 2023.

c) Injected the phase 2, £10.46m, funded from WY+TF (West Yorkshire + Transport Fund) and seek authority to spend subject to approval of the FBC which will be submitted in October 2022

d) Approved the award of Armley Gyratory Highway Phase Scheme to  Balfour Beatty Group Ltd T/A Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering, through the SCAPE2 Civil Engineering Framework, with a contract value of £19,400,000.  This also includes £542k to develop the design of the Armley Gyratory Phase 2 Structures.