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Having considered an open and closed officer report, Cllr Dacres
MOVED, Cllr Barnham SECONDED and it was RESOLVED that Mayor and
Cabinet noted:
 

The background to this contract with a total scheme cost of
£34m to invest in modular homes on the Home Park and Edward
Street sites, split £13.5m and £20.5m respectively with
the delivery of the development tasked to Lewisham Homes
The intended outcome to bring forward 31 social homes on the
Home Park site within the HRA and 34 social/temporary
accommodation homes on the Edward Street site within the General
Fund.
That the appointed contractor, very late in the offsite
construction and site preparation phases, has gone into
administration leaving the commissioned units incomplete and not
meeting the contracted specifications.
 Following the company’s collapse into
administration, the extensive work undertaken to explore options
for continuing the schemes or mitigating the loss the Council from
aborting them.