Issue - meetings

B (Copy herewith)

1.    Cabinet delegated authority to the Head of Economy, Assets and Culture, in consultation with the Borough Secretary and the Cabinet Member for Regeneration to finalise the contract terms and to appoint the main construction contractor for the Vulcan Works project.

2.    Cabinet approved the inclusion in the Capital programme of all resources spent to date and those needed to complete the project (set out at exempt Appendix A of the report).

3.    Cabinet approved the acceptance of the ERDF grant funding in the sum of £3,062,315 and delegated authority to the Head of Economy, Assets and Culture in consultation with the Borough Secretary and Cabinet Member for Regeneration to undertake such actions necessary to enter into the grant funding agreement.

4.    Cabinet approved the continued appointment of Ridge and Partners LLP  to provide project management and cost consultancy to support the project.

5.    Cabinet delegated authority to the Head of Economy, Assets and Culture, to appoint the services of a design team for RIBA stage 5 and to enter into a contract, to develop final detailed design ahead of construction (these costs are accounted for within the total project cost).

6.    Cabinet delegated authority to the Head of Economy, Assets and Culture to commence the procurement of an operator through Ridge and Partners LLP to manage the completed Vulcan Works. Cabinet will receive a further report on the outcome of the procurement process and approval for the award of contract.

Councillor Hadland as the relevant Cabinet Member submitted a report and stated that this scheme had been ongoing for several years and was an exciting development of 59 business units in the Cultural Quarter.  This was made possible by Local Growth Funding and money from the European Regional Development Fund.  These funds had conditions of work commencing on site by March 2019 and spending the money in 2019/20 respectively. If the scheme did not go ahead now, any future development would need to be started again from scratch.

At this point the Leader asked that the meeting continue in private so that discussion of the excluded appendix could take place.  The public and press were therefore excluded from the rest of the meeting.

(Recommendations agreed in private session, but detailed below.)

RESOLVED:

1.    That authority be delegated to the Head of Economy, Assets and Culture, in consultation with the Borough Secretary and the Cabinet Member for Regeneration to finalise the contract terms and to appoint the main construction contractor for the Vulcan Works project.

2.    That the inclusion in the Capital programme of all resources spent to date and those needed to complete the project (set out at exempt Appendix A of the report) be approved.

3.    That the acceptance of the ERDF grant funding in the sum of £3,062,315 and delegated authority to the Head of Economy, Assets and Culture in consultation with the Borough Secretary and Cabinet Member for Regeneration to undertake such actions necessary to enter into the grant funding agreement be approved.

4.    That the continued appointment of Ridge and Partners LLP  to provide project management and cost consultancy to support the project be approved.

5.    That authority be delegated to the Head of Economy, Assets and Culture, to appoint the services of a design team for RIBA stage 5 and to enter into a contract, to develop final detailed design ahead of construction (these costs are accounted for within the total project cost).

6.    That authority be delegated to the Head of Economy, Assets and Culture to commence the procurement of an operator through Ridge and Partners LLP to manage the completed Vulcan Works. Cabinet will receive a further report on the outcome of the procurement process and approval for the award of contract.