Agenda item

To consider the report of the Executive Director Environment.

RESOLVED, That Members

1. Approve the additional budget of £35,500 to reach the next Gateway;

2. Note the revised project budget of £77,199 (excluding risk);

3. Note the total estimated cost of the project at £255,400 (excluding risk);

4. Approve a Costed Risk Provision of £14,600 (to be drawn down via delegation to Chief Officer);

5. Note the total estimated cost of the project inclusive of costed risk at £270,000 (no change from previous);

6. Approve the removal of the existing Temporary Traffic Regulation Order (TTRO), implemented under the Covid-19 on-street response, that prohibits motor vehicles from entering St Mary Axe Monday-Friday 7am-7pm except for access to off-street premises;

7. Note that the experimental timed closure in St Mary Axe is not proposed to be progressed and approve the changes in scope to that detailed in section 5 of this report, which are:

o Approve a change in project title to ‘St Mary Axe Improvements – Phase 1’ to better reflect the rescoping of this project,

o Commence the detailed design of a raised carriageway table on St Mary Axe at the junction with Undershaft and survey work to both inform the detailed design of the raised table and future proposals on St Mary Axe (as shown in Appendix 2 and detailed in paragraphs 5.1 and 5.3),

o Support the City Cluster Vision Programme’s Activation & Engagement work strand for potential temporary activation initiatives on St Mary Axe,

o Approve the delegation process in respect of the next Gateway report under delegation to the Executive Director Environment, subject to the project cost not exceeding the maximum of £270,000 inclusive of CRP (as detailed in paragraph 5.1)