The technical team require the support of a lift consultant engineer to carry out condition reports of all Oxford City Councils existing passenger lifts and a proportion of stair and platform lifts.

We require this expertise to understand the remaining life expectancy of the stock and then to develop and prioritise a lift replacement programme.

When the condition surveys are completed, any lifts requiring lift replacement the successful lift consultant will the prepare designs and specification for tendering of the identified lift providing project management for the lift replacement.

Following the procurement process and tender return, to award the Lift Engineering Consultancy to Frankham Consultancy Ltd.                                                        

The total cost for the project for 12 months including option to extend for a further 12 months is £143,084.00.

It enables a full analysis of options on how to best utilise this property in order to achieve maximum income or capital receipt, or assess the potential for regeneration.

To authorise funding of £61,000 for an options analysis of a commercial property that is presently commercially confidential.

During the contract process for the new Leisure Operator Contract the Council included the provision for the Council to require the Leisure Operator to undertake dilapidation works that the Council would fund. This requires the parties to enter into a JCT contract but this was not appended to in the contract and decision arrangements. As such there is a need to contract under the JCT to enable the works and the payment for the works. Entering this JCT is required to allow the Council and the Leisure Operator to fulfil their obligations under the Leisure Operator Contract.

The Cabinet Member resolved to:

1.    Approve entering into the JCT contract with Serco Operations Limited to enable the works to be delivered as required under the Leisure Operator Contract, the JCT is attached as Exempt Appendix 1 – form of JCT Contract

2.    Approve the spend of £1,373,308 under the JCT contract.

To authorise the transfer by purchase by Oxford City Council of the complete property and refurbished home at 15 Kempson Crescent delivered through the OCHDL Extensions programme. Contributing to the Councils overall Affordable Housing provision.

To authorise the purchase by way of transfer the extended and refurbished home at 15 Kempson Crescent, Oxford, resulting from the Oxford City Housing Development Ltd Extensions Programme.

Authority was granted for the HRA to purchase the unit for £450,000 in total.

The decision will achieve the partial surrender of a farm tenancy that will return control of land back to Oxford City Council. This will in turn, subject to planning consent being obtained, allow a burial meadow to be developed on the land owned by Oxford City Council.

A licence is also to be completed with the tenant farmer to enable him to maintain those parts of the land not required for the surveys that are to be completed in advance of the planning application being determined.

The decision reached in this instance is exempt from circulation to the public.