Issue - meetings

To consider the attached report of the Strategic Director (Operations and Commercial).

The Strategic Project Manager (Infrastructure) presented the report on the Dover Fastrack Project Update.

RESOLVED:       That Cabinet Decision CAB172 be endorsed and that the project update be noted, and the Strategic Director (Operations and Commercial), in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Transport and Licensing, be authorised as follows:

(a)  To finalise details of an option agreement for the ‘Triangle Land’;

(b)  To request that Homes England considers expanding the project scope to include delivery of a link to adopted highways, noting that not all of the necessary funding is in place at this time;

(c)   To renegotiate, agree and accept any necessary revision to the grant-funding agreement;

(d)  To request an extension of time from Homes England due to COVID-19-related delays;

(e)  To allocate £120,000 from the Capital Programme to support the additional design development work required as a result of expanding the project scope.

To consider the attached report of the Strategic Director (Operations and Commercial).

Responsibility: Portfolio Holder for Transport and Licensing

It was agreed that the project update be noted, and the Strategic Director (Operations and Commercial), in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Transport and Licensing, be authorised as follows:

(a)   To finalise details of an option agreement for the ‘Triangle Land’;

(b)   To request that Homes England considers expanding the project scope to include delivery of a link to adopted highways, noting that not all of the necessary funding is in place at this time;

(c)   To renegotiate, agree and accept any necessary revision to the grant-funding agreement;

(d)   To request an extension of time from Homes England due to COVID-19-related delays;

(e)   To allocate £120,000 from the Capital Programme to support the additional design development work required as a result of expanding the project scope.