Agenda item

To consider a Gateway 4b report relating to a programme of works across several housing estates maintained by the City Corporation.

Community and Children’s Services Committee

(Dhruv Patel)

17 November 2017

Gateway 4b: Windows Replacement & Common Parts Redecorations Programme - Golden Lane, Holloway, Southwark, Dron House, Sydenham Hill, William Blake and Windsor House

Gateway 2 approval had previously been provided for the commissioning of condition surveys across several City of London Housing Estates. This was given to identify areas where repair, refurbishment or replacement of windows or other common parts was required, with recommendations then to be produced for Members’ consideration.

These surveys had now been completed and the overall scope of the windows replacement and redecorations programme was significant, given that it covered multiple Estates, with estimated total programme costs of £16,905,452.

It was intended that a single design team be appointed to undertake the works across all Estates; however, pursuant to the City Corporation’s project management procedures, whilst works across the vast majority of Estates were to proceed on the regular route, the Golden Lane Estate works would be progressed along the complex route (and thus also be considered by Members at the detailed design stage) due to that Estate’s listed status.

It was recommended that the Court’s approval be granted to appoint the design team and to progress the project on the Golden Lane Estate to Gateway 4c to allow the requisite works to be undertaken, and to progress the programme to Gateway 5 on the wider estates at Holloway, Southwark, Dron House, Sydenham Hill, William Blake and Windsor House.

Resolved – That approval be given to:-

·         the progression of the programme of works across the Holloway, Southwark, Dron House, Sydenham Hill, William Blake and Windsor House Estates to Gateway 5;

·         the progression of the programme of works at the Golden Lane Estate to Gateway 4c; and,

·         the allocation of £1,087,967 for the procurement of a single design team, of which £449,854 being allocated to Golden Lane and £638,113 was to be allocated across the other Estates.