Agenda item

Report of the Executive Director, Community and Children’s Services.

The Committee received a verbal update from the Assistant Director in respect of Water Penetration.

The Barbican Windows Project had been approved under urgency procedure and work was being undertaken to specify which blocks would undergo replacement first. Work to roofs was being undertaken at Ben Jonson House and this was expected to be a pilot for how roofs and replacement roofs would be considered going forward and was happening in tandem with repairs charging conversations. A Member was concerned that the windows were being specified separately to roofs and drains. The Assistant Director explained that the two projects were interdependent. The tender for window repairs is progressing so when the issues of water penetration (balconies, roof and drainage) are resolved we are prepared to take forward the windows work without delay.