Purpose

This paper seeks Cabinet agreement to progress
the King Alfred Regeneration project from its current concept
design stage (Royal Institute of British Architects Plan of Work
Stage 2 or RIBA 2) through to spatial coordination and technical
design (RIBA stage 3 and 4) including submission of the planning
application.

Content

That Cabinet:
 
1)            
Agrees that the design team progress further the
design proposals presented at appendix 1 and delegates authority to
Corporate Director, City Operations in consultation with the
Cabinet Member for Sports, Recreation & Libraries to proceed
with submission of a planning application based on those
designs.

 
2)            
Approves the indicative capital budget for the
project of up to £65 million to be included in the
Medium-Term Capital Investment Programme to be funded from a
combination of capital receipts, government grants and council
borrowing.
 
3)            
Approves an allocation of a further £2.3
million of these resources, in addition to the £2.7million
agreed at July 2024 cabinet, for professional fees, surveys, and
investigations relating to the development of the design proposals
through RIBA Stage 3 (including submission of a planning
application), and RIBA Stage 4 with enabling works.
 
4)            
Approves the demolition of redundant parts of the
site (appendix 5) between the current facility and the car park so
that the enabling works for the new facility and regenerated public
realm can come forward.