Agenda item

Report of the Town Clerk

The Sub-Committee received a list of outstanding references.

Swan Pier

The Chairman expressed his disappointment that an officer from the City Surveyor’s Department was not present at the meeting to give an update on the project and advised the Sub-Committee that he would follow this up outside the meeting.

22 Bishopsgate

The Director of the Built Environment advised the Sub-Committee that there had been some delay as the developer had shifted their programme, slowing negotiations, but the details of the agreement were in place and a meeting would be taking place that week.

Dockless Bikes

The Director of the Built Environment advised the Sub-Committee that more general work on reviewing the Street Obstructions Policy had begun, and this would be brought back to Members in Spring 2019.

Beech Street

The Director of the Built Environment and the Chairman advised Members that there had been positive meetings in the last month with London Borough of Islington at Member and Officer level, and there was political agreement to push together to complete all relevant projects at the highest possible standard.

The Sub-Committee noted that Blackfriars Bridge Underpass should be added to the outstanding references for the Sub-Committee, having been taken off the Grand Committee’s outstanding references. A Member stated that there were repairs and maintenance that still needed to be carried out.

A Member asked if officers could provide any details on accelerations to the Beech Street project. The Director of the Built Environment responded that the aim was to put an interim scheme in place within the next 18 months, which had been communicated to TfL and Islington, and officers were awaiting feedback. It was hoped that officers would have firmer idea of wider timescales for the project by March 2019.

A Member asked that the timescales charted on the outstanding references list be made more specific, rather than, for instance, describing a project as ‘ongoing’. The references list should give a specific target date for the project to progress to its next step, with items split up into phases if necessary.

RESOLVED – That the list of outstanding references be noted, and updated accordingly.