Issue - meetings

(Report of the Director of Urban Environment): To award the contract for Phase NT8 of the North Tottenham Decent Homes programme for 2008/09.

The Appendices to the interleaved report were the subject of a motion to exclude the press and public from the meeting as they contained exempt information relating to the business or financial affairs of any particular person.

Concerns were expressed regarding residents re-fitting metal grills removed during the course of works and constituting a breach of fire regulations. We were advised that monitoring and enforcement would be a housing management issue and that a report and action plan for implementing an enforcement programme would be reported to the Committee.

The Committee were advised that specialist costings for replacing the flat roofs on the three brick built blocks with pitched roofs had been obtained and would constitute an additional cost of £0.907 million. It was recognised that detailed life cycle costings illustrate the financial benefit of pitched roofs in the long term, but initial outlay would be significant and Decent Homes funding does not include resources for pitched roofs. In addition, any changes to the pitch of the three roofs in question would be deemed to constitute improvement work due to the remaining life span of the roofs of 12-15 years, with a subsequent impact on recouping costs from leaseholders under the terms of their leases. The Committee also expressed concerns about the setting of a precedence for undertaking improvement works.    

RESOLVED:

That, in accordance with Contract Standing Order 11.03, approval be granted for the award of the contract for Phase NT8 of the North Tottenham Decent Homes Programme 2008/09 to the contractor named in the interleaved exempt Appendix A.

That the Agreed Maximum Price excluding fees as detailed in Paragraph 2.2 of Appendix A be noted.