Agenda item

Report of the Director of the Built Environment.

The Deputy Chairman took the Chair for consideration of this item.

The Sub-Committee considered a report of the Director of the Built Environment concerning transportation and public realm improvements in the Beech Street area.

Members were advised that Item 4 had been substantively withdrawn, following consideration by the Streets & Walkways Sub-Committee on 3 July 2018 where Members had rejected the proposals as outlined in the report.

The resolution of the Streets & Walkways Sub-Committee meeting held on 3 July 2018 was subsequently tabled, alongside revised recommendations limiting the proposals to funding relating to the structures investigation element of the project and requesting that a revised report be submitted to the next meeting which examined the options around commissioning either a limited Beech Street area traffic model or a Citywide traffic model. The Resource Allocation Sub-Committee was asked to endorse the approach recommended by the Streets & Walkways Sub-Committee.

RESOLVED: That approval be given to:-

• An increase in the estimated project budget of £98,402 to £218,927 to fund the structures investigations to Gateway 4 and the City-wide model investigation until the next update report in September.

• The allocation of £98,402 of Public Realm and Local Transport Improvement CIL funds to fund the structures investigation element of the project to Gateway 4.  (N.B. - this was the total for structures work as set out in Appendix 4 of the original report , i.e. £18,402 structures team staff costs + £80,000 structures consultant fees).

·         The delegation of authority for any adjustments between elements of the £218,927 required budget to the Director of the Built Environment, in conjunction with the Chamberlain, provided the total approved budget of £218,927 was not exceeded and the scope remained unchanged.