Purpose

Following the procurement process. This report
will seek approval to appoint the design team for the four
sites.

Decision

The Cabinet Member for the Economy
is recommended to:  
 
1.   
Approve that Appendix 1
and 2 are not for publication on the basis that they contain
information relating to the financial or business affairs of any
person (including the authority holding that information) as set
out in paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972
(as amended).
 
2.   
Approve the appointment of PRP Architects LLP to
provide professional ‘Design Team’ services consisting
of:
 

* Lead Architect

* Lead Designer (to coordinate design)

* Planning Consultant

* Landscape Architect

* Structural and Civil Engineers

* M&E Consultant

* Sustainability & Energy Consultant

* Plus some proprietary survey work (geotechnical
assessment, prelim ecological appraisal, arboricultural impact assessment and
others)

 

The newly required Building Safety Act (BSA)
Principle Designer (PD) role will be
commissioned under a separate procurement exercise and be appointed
to  sit within the ‘client
tram’, independent from other
‘designers’.

 

The Design Team are to redevelop each of the four
independent sites through Gateways 2 –
Planning and 3 – Procurement (RIBA Stages 1 – 4) of the
Council’s Development Gateway process. The Headline Programme
up to Planning is shown below.

 

Milestone 

Date 

LBHF Development Stage 2:
(Planning) 

? 

RIBA Work Stages 1  

Mar 24

RIBA Work Stages 2  

Mar – Aug 24 

RIBA Work Stages 3 

Sep 24 – Dec 24 

Planning Submission

Jan 25

RIBA Stage 3+ Supplementary Design

Jan 25 – Mar 25

RIBA Stage 4 Procurement

Mar 25-Nov 25

Planning Consent

May 25

 
3.   
To note individual budget allocations including 10%
contingency (at a total of £1,922,008) from the existing
budget envelope as set out below:
 
    
i)       
Barclay Close for a value of
£351,983.50
   
ii)       
Becklow
Gardens for a value of £477,582.88
  
iii)       
land behind the Grange for a value of
£417,859.75 and
  
iv)       
land adjacent to Jepson House for a value of
£674,581.88
 
4.   
To note that this sets the build standard to
aspirational on all four projects combined, with all four projects
independent of each other.