Purpose

This report requests delegated authority to
Corporate Director City Operations to award the contract and
approve spend on key project decisions for the scheme.

Content

1)            
Cabinet delegates authority to the Corporate
Director City Operations with consultation with the cabinet member
to submit the completed Full Business Case (See Appendix 1) for the
Phases 4 and 5 Scheme to the Department for Transport (DfT) for
approval and release of the Major Road Network (MRN) Funds
amounting to £22.2 million.

 

2)            
Subject to approval of the Full Business
Case  for the release of the MRN Funds
by the DfT to the Council, Cabinet delegates authority to the
Corporate Director City Operations with consultation with the
cabinet member to take all steps necessary to implement the Phases
4 and 5 Scheme including to award the two suitable construction
contracts for the Phases 4 and 5 Scheme to the preferred bidders of
Knights Brown Construction Limited and to enter into the contracts
and any associated warranties and documents..

 

3)            
Cabinet approves a Capital budget for phases 4 and 5
of the programme totalling £24.850m. This represents the
total scheme costs less costs incurred to date, funding
arrangements are included within the financial implications of the
report.

 

4)            
Cabinet agrees to provide approval to undertake a
play area feasibility study for the future of the wet and dry play
areas in front of Phase 4 once construction is complete. This is
detailed in section 3.13.