Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Director of Culture, Communities and Business Services seeking approval of the County Council’s repairs and maintenance programmes for 2022/23.

To consider a report of the Director of Culture, Communities and Business Services setting out the County Council’s repair and maintenance priorities for 2022/23. It also provides an update on proposals from the 2021/22 repairs and maintenance budgets.

The Panel considered a report of the Director of Culture, Communities and Business Services regarding the management of Hampshire’s built estate (Item 6 in the Minute Book).

The Director highlighted the salient points in the report including the County Council’s repair and maintenance priorities for 2022/23 for the corporate and schools’ estates and gave details on project appraisals for named capital schemes within the 2022/23 CCBS capital programme.

An update was also provided on the delivery of the County Council’s current Decarbonisation Programme, which had been largely funded by the Government’s Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS). Members also noted the progress on the County Council’s climate change objectives for its

built estate and the ongoing impacts of current construction industry market conditions.

RESOLVED:

That the Buildings, Land and Procurement Panel recommends that the Executive Member for Commercial Strategy, Estates and Property:

a.    Notes the progress made on the delivery of the 2021/22 repairs and maintenance programme and the projected 2021/22 outturn position for the repairs and maintenance budgets.

b.    Approves the carry forward of the unexpended balance of the 2021/22 repairs and maintenance budgets to 2022/23 to meet the commitments made against these budgets.

c.    Approves the high-level allocation of the 2022/23 repairs and maintenance budgets for the corporate and schools’ estates as set out in the report, to address the priorities for health and safety, compliance, condition and business continuity.

d.    Approves the provision of £670,000 of additional Schools Condition Allocation (SCA) funding for the planned “SCOLA” recladding project at Wavell School, identified in the 2022/23 CCBS capital programme, giving a revised total scheme value of £3,402,600, as set out in paragraph 57 and in the project appraisal within Appendix 3.

e.    Recommends to Cabinet for its approval, the allocation of £1,485,000 of additional SCA funding for the thermal improvement works to the listed block at Warblington School, identified in the 2022/23 CCBS capital programme, giving a revised total scheme value of £3,489,000, as set out in paragraph 58 and in the project appraisal within Appendix 3.

f.     Notes that the detailed programmes of works within each budget allocation, that fall within Chief Officer financial delegations, will be approved by the Director of Culture, Communities and Business Services.

g.    Notes the progress made on the Decarbonisation Programme, the forecasted reductions in carbon emissions arising from this work and the emerging work to shape a long-term strategy for climate change for the built estate.

h.    Notes the update on the construction industry market conditions and associated impacts on work being delivered across the County Council’s built estate.