Purpose

Quarterly report

Decision

The report set out the recommended updates to the Council’s Capital Programme for 2025-26 to 2028-29. The Council’s Capital Programme for 2025/26 to 2028/29 was updated at Cabinet in July 2025, totalling £672.281m.

Since then:

• The Corporate Capital Investment Board met 3 times and made recommendations to add budgets of £3.675m and release budgets to progress projects. These recommendations were approved by subsequent Leader decisions.

• Services had reviewed their profile of expected spend in 25-26 and had reprofiled the programme to align it with their updated delivery plans totalling £56.4m of which would be reprofiled from 2025/26 to future years.

The report detailed further changes for recommendation to Cabinet. The revised Capital Programme for 2025-26 to 2028-29 totalled £672.561m.

RESOLVED that the recommended changes to the approved Capital Programme be agreed:

a) £2.600m of additions to the Capital Programme, which are funded from s.106 as set out in section 2 of the report.

b) £5.944m removal from the Capital Programme due to a change in the Orchard House project, as set out in section 3 of the report.

c) A reprofile of £56.400m from 2025-26 into future years as set out in section 4 of the report.

d) the release of funding of £7.772m relating to the projects set out in section 5 of the report.