Decision details

(i)       instruct the Chief Officer – Capital to arrange for the redesign of both schemes with the Value Engineering options implemented. These options should be developed to retain the Gold Standards environmental criteria;

(ii)      instruct the Chief Officer – Capital to arrange for the resubmission of new planning applications, for both sites, to take account of the value engineered options;

(iii)      following approval of (ii), instruct the Chief Officer – Capital to arrange for the retender of both sites;

(iv)     note that the preferred approach will be to progress both sites simultaneously as single phase developments but there is an acceptance that some project phasing maybe required on one or both sites to spread the capital commitment over a number of years; and

(v)      note the necessary financial commitments that will be necessary to ensure delivery of both sites. Refer to Appendix B.