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With reference to article 15 of the minute of meeting of the Communities, Housing and Infrastructure Committee of 24 January 2017, the Committee had before it a report by the interim Director of Communities, Housing and Infrastructure which provided information on the Motion by Councillor Jennifer Stewart which proposed that where there are unreasonable delays in Capital Programmes of Works attributed to the Contractor, that (1) Council tenants and other affected householders should receive an appropriate payment payable by the contractor (to be provided for in the contract between the council and the contractor) to cover their reasonable losses and/or (2) other methods of recompense should be made available.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)       note the report and in particular that Council tenants and other affected residents should not receive compensatory payments under the contractual terms for capital works; and

(b)       instruct officers to engage Council tenants and others affected by any future delayed works and contractors to assist negotiation on any remedial actions that can be taken to counterbalance unreasonable delays.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.