Issue - decisions

(a)      note the advance and enabling development works undertaken to date to reduce risk to the main construction works and mitigate educational disruption;

(b)      note that the works carried out to date remain within the Capital Plan budget envelope and that work continues towards collating the main costs that will allow completion of the full business case; and

(c)      instruct the Chief Officer – Capital to continue to progress all necessary procurements, approvals, permissions, licenses, agreements and consents required to develop and implement the projects within the Capital Programme budget, reporting progress through the regular capital programme monitoring reports to this committee and to circulate for information the full business Cases for each project to committee members once completed; and

(d)      to note that the Director of City Regeneration and Environment would raise Councillor Watson’s concerns regarding the speeding buses on Caledonian Place at the next meeting of the Aberdeen Bus Partnership, which includes within its membership, representation from FirstBus.