Agenda, decisions and draft minutes

At this juncture, in the interests of transparency, Councillor Ali advised that he had a connection in relation to agenda items 9.1 (Housing Delivery Programme Update), 9.2 (Auchmill New Build Housing Progress Report ) and 9.4 (Summerhill New Build Housing Progress Update) due to his appointment as a Director of Aberdeen Heat and Power, however having applied the objective test he did not consider that he had an interest and would not be withdrawing from the meeting for those items.

The Committee had before it the minute of its previous meeting of 9 February 2022.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the minute as a correct record.

The Committee had before it the Committee Business Planner as prepared by the Chief Officer – Governance.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)       in relation to items 7 and 22 (Wellheads New Build Housing Progress Update) to remove them from the planner due to the project being completed;

(ii)      in relation to item 8 (B999 Shielhill Junction), to note that an update would be presented to the next meeting of the Committee;

(iii)      in relation to item 26 (Aberdeen Art Gallery) to note the update provided; and

(iv)     to otherwise note the content of the committee business planner.

With reference to article 6 of the minute of its meeting of 1 December 2021, the Committee had before it a report by the Director of Resources which provided an update on the progress of works being undertaken as part of the Aberdeen City Council’s directly delivered new build Council housing sites and developer led schemes to meet the political commitment of 2000 new homes.

The report recommended:-

That the Committee -

(a)      note the progress to deliver the programme of social housing sites across the city as referred to in Appendix 1;

(b)      note that going forward, individual project progress reports would be submitted at an appropriate time to the Capital Programme Committee for each project; and

(iii)      review the planned delivery of the Council led sites at Craighill, Kincorth, Tillydrone and Kaimhill in light of the current forecast increase in costs across the construction sector and to report the outcome of that review to the next appropriate meeting of the City Growth & Resources committee or the Council.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations contained in the report.

With reference to article 9 of the minute its meeting of 1 December 2021, the Committee had before it a report by the Director of Resources which provided an update on the progress of the Auchmill Road new build Council housing project.

The report recommended:-

That the Committee note the progress achieved in the procurement of the new build Council housing project at Auchmill Road.

The Committee resolved:-

To approve the recommendation contained in the report.

The Committee had before it a report by the Director of Resources which provided an update on the progress of the Cloverhill new build Council housing project.

The report recommended:-

That the Committee note the progress achieved in the housing project at Cloverhill.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendation contained in the report.

With reference to article 7 of the minute of its meeting of 1 December 2021, the Committee had before it a report by the Director of Resources which provided an update on the progress of works being undertaken at Summerhill new build Council housing project.

The report recommended:-

That the Committee note the progress achieved in the housing project at Summerhill.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendation contained in the report.

The Committee had before it a report by the Director of Resources which presented the Cluster Risk Registers and Assurance Maps in relation to Capital and Corporate Landlord to provide assurance that risks were being managed effectively.

The report recommended:-

That the Committee -

(a)      note the Cluster Risk Registers and Assurance Maps set out Appendices A-D; and

(b)      note, in particular, the external factors which are having a negative impact on the delivery of Capital programmes/projects;

The Committee resolved:-

(i)       to note that a report would be submitted to the City Growth and Resources Committee outlining the wider context of the impacts raised in the report, namely Covid 19 pandemic, Brexit and the recent Russia/Ukraine war and how these have affected project delivery; and

(ii)      to otherwise approve the recommendations contained in the report.

-        COUNCILLOR ALLARD, Convener