Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Director of Culture, Communities and Business Services setting out the County Council’s repair and maintenance priorities for the corporate and schools’ estates 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 the corporate and schools’ estates for 2022/23.

The Panel considered a report of the Director of Culture, Communities and Business Services regarding Hampshire’s built estate.

In presenting the report, Members were made aware that the County Council was nearing to the end of the current programme of decarbonisation work, funded by grants totalling £29.3million from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with 474 projects across the schools and corporate estate being progressed.

It was noted that the impact of market conditions continued to affect the County Council’s Repairs and Maintenance Programmes on the built estate, which was being carefully managed by the department.

RESOLVED:

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

a)    Notes the confirmed funding allocations for the 2022/23 repairs and maintenance programmes for the corporate and schools’ estates and approves the revised high level budget allocations.

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

c)    Approves the provision of £963,500 of additional Schools Condition Allocation (SCA) funding for the planned “SCOLA” recladding project at Nightingale Primary School, identified in the 2022/23 CCBS capital programme, giving a revised total scheme value of £2,478,000 as set out in paragraph 28 and in the project appraisal within Appendix 3.

d)    Notes that the bid for Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS) funding to develop the pilot heat decarbonisation project at Heatherside Junior School was unsuccessful and therefore to continue to progress the pilot, £425,000 of 2022/23 Schools Condition Allocation (SCA) funding will be approved under Chief Officer Delegation as set out in paragraph 31 and in the project appraisal within Appendix 3.

e)    Notes that the programme of work delivered via the PSDS completes at the end of June.

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