Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Director of Culture, Communities and Business Services setting out the progress made on 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 progress made on 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 giving an update on how the County Council is managing its Built Estate (Item 6 in the Minute Book).

The Panel heard that the completion in June of the £29.4 million PSDS grant-funded work has made a positive contribution to reducing carbon emissions from the built estate. Although good progress was being made on delivery of the planned maintenance, the rising costs and other difficulties in the construction market were becoming increasingly challenging. Property Services continued to work to manage these issues with its suppliers and progress work, where value for money could be assured, to minimise disruption to building users.

RESOLVED:

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

      i.        Notes that since the last report to the Panel, the Director of Adult Services has allocated £2.4 million from departmental cost of change reserves to be focused on further addressing health and safety priorities across its portfolio of buildings. Individual programmes of work will be approved within Chief Officer Delegations.

    ii.        Approves the provision of £600,000 of additional Schools Condition Allocation (SCA) funding for the replacement roofing project at Stoke Park Infant School, identified in the 2022/23 CCBS capital programme, giving a revised total scheme value of £1,900,000 as set out in paragraph 24 and in the updated project appraisal within Appendix 3.

   iii.        Notes Hampshire County Council’s ongoing programme of decarbonisation including the conclusion of phase one of the Public Sector Decarbonisation Programme (PSDS) with £29.4million of grant funding invested across the Corporate and Schools’ estates.

   iv.        Approves the proposal at paragraph 40 to consolidate the remaining £1.45 million of Energy Performance Programme funding to support the County Council’s decarbonisation programme and delegates the commitment of this funding to individual projects to the Director of Communities, Culture and Business Services.

    v.        Approves the proposal at paragraphs 41 to 43 to allocate £500,000 within the SCA programme to create a revolving fund to enable schools to undertake energy efficiency projects.

   vi.        Notes the ongoing challenging construction industry market conditions and the associated impacts on the supply chain and work being delivered across the County Council’s built estate.