Issue - meetings

Rowan Drive, Billingshurst - Approval of a supplementary budget

 

 

Meeting: 20/09/2018 - Cabinet (Item 26)

26 Rowan Drive, Billingshurst - Approval of a supplementary budget pdf icon PDF 117 KB

To receive the report of the Cabinet Member for Community and Wellbeing

 

Additional documents:

Decision:

RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL

 

(i)         That the capital budget envelope be increased from £3,000,000 to £3,175,000.

 

(ii)        That a supplementary capital budget of £175,000 be approved for this project.

 

REASON

 

To enable the Council to provide additional temporary accommodation for eligible families in housing need.

Minutes:

The Cabinet Member for Community and Wellbeing reported that, on 22nd March 2018, Cabinet had approved the appointment of a contractor to for the construction of 17 residential units on two development sites at Peary Close and Rowan Drive within an approved budget allocation of £3,000,000.

 

Following the receipt of planning consent for the development at Peary Close, the contract had been let and works had commenced on site, with a target completion date of 17th May 2019.

 

Consideration of the planning application in respect of the development at Rowan Drive had initially been deferred, owing to objections received during the planning process.  The scheme had therefore been redesigned in order to address the key objections and planning permission had been granted at the Planning Committee (South) meeting on 18th September 2018.

 

Cabinet was advised that three additional cost elements had arisen since March 2018: the cost of the redesign of the development; costs arising from the decoupling of the two construction projects; and the payment of Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) which was unexpectedly due as temporary accommodation was not excluded from CIL.

 

Cabinet was therefore now requested to recommend Council to approve an additional capital budget allocation of £175,000, increasing the overall capital budget envelope to £3,175,000, and a supplementary capital budget for this purpose.  

 

RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL

 

(i)         That the capital budget envelope be increased from £3,000,000 to £3,175,000.

 

(ii)        That a supplementary capital budget of £175,000 be approved for this project.

 

REASON

 

To enable the Council to provide additional temporary accommodation for eligible families in housing need.