Purpose

Purpose: to award a contract to
provide a modular public toilet block in the Cattlemarket,
Wallingford

Decision

To allow the new modular toilet to be
installed in Wallingford Cattlemarket
Car Park prior to the additional CIL funding being made available,
which will be refunded into the facilities code.
 
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and
Communities approved revised funding in December 2023 for the
following:
 
1.Wallingford –£102,795.17 of
eligible costs
2.Riverside – as previously agreed we
will fund 100% of the Changing Places Toilets (CPT) costs which are
now £147,019.38.
 
Final eligible costs will need to be signed
off by the S151 Officer in 2024/25.
 
Currently we are in the process of planning
the installation of three Changing Places toilet in South Oxon.
These are at Riverside camp side, Cattlemarket Wallingford, and Market House
Thame.   To ensure the work can be
undertaken within the time frame that the government has set out
for its grants for the CPT’s, we need to ensure that the
funding is available.  Currently the
fund available through the capital budget and CIL has a reduced
shortfall of £65,000. It is proposed to move £65,000
from budget A326 Commercial Property cost centre into the Changing
Places facilities capital budget A391.
 
These funds will be replaced in A326
Commercial Property upkeep budget once the application of CIL funds
for the Changing Places facilities has been approved after April
2024.
 
Decision to award the contract
value of £223,158.38.