Report of the Deputy Chief Executive (Place)
(Listing Officer: C Knight, tel: 024 7683 4001)
Minutes:
Further to Minute 19 above, the Cabinet considered a private report of the Deputy Chief Executive (Place) that set out confidential aspects of proposals for updates to the Coventry Station Masterplan Programme.
RESOLVED that the Cabinet:
1)
Notes the award of a contract to
Buckingham Contracting Ltd for the delivery of the new
footbridge at a contract value of £9.3m with a
contingency amount in the sum now stated allocated within
the overall £82m funding envelope already approved.
2)
Approves that the delivery of a
section of the link road into Central Six Retail Park (as shown in
Appendix 2 to the report) has been removed from the Coventry
Station Masterplan programme of works for the purposes
of de-risking the project.
3) Delegates authority to the Deputy Chief Executive (Place), in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Jobs and Regeneration, to finalise a revised scope within the Coventry Station Masterplan Programme scheme which delivers a revised Highway layout (illustrated in Appendix 2 to the report), an extension to the pedestrian boulevard (illustrated in Appendix 3 to the report), and potentially a reduction in scope of the bus interchange to keep the overall programme within the £82m funding envelope.
4) Delegates authority to the Deputy Chief Executive (Place), in consultation with Cabinet Member for Jobs and Regeneration and the Director of Finance and Corporate Resources, to manage the scheme and funding element as a whole programme, reallocating funds, including contingency between each work package to assist in programme delivery timescales.
5) Approves the undertaking of the necessary procedure to allow Westminster Road temporary car park (as shown in Appendix 4 to the report) to be added to the Council’s Off-street Parking Places Order.
6) Approves that Westminster Road temporary car park is managed and operated by the Council as a pay and display car park and that the tariff structure introduced at Westminster Road car park is consistent with the charging structure at the nearby Grosvenor Road public car park and other long stay Council car parks in the city centre.
7) Approves within existing budgets the proposal to reimburse Virgin Trains for loss of revenue from rail car parking provisions during the construction phase and delegates authority to the Deputy Chief Executive (Place), in consultation with the Director of Finance and Corporate Resources, to agree the appropriate mechanism for paying Virgin Trains compensation due via the statutory Station Change process.
8) Approves freehold transfer of the piece of land (edged red on the plan shown in Appendix 1 to the report) to Network Rail which is to be included in the new proposed taxi rank and within the operational station lease area to enable taxi permits to be issued.
9) Approves in principle (following the construction of the bus interchange) the completion of a legally binding agreement, if required, between the City Council and West Midland Combined Authority (Transport for West Midland) on a revenue cost neutral basis to the City Council and Transport for West Midlands for the operational management of the bus interchange. Any management arrangement for the bus interchange which does not result in a revenue cost neutral position for the City Council, shall be brought back to the Cabinet for approval.
10) Delegates authority to the Deputy Chief Executive (Place), in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Jobs and Regeneration and the Director for Finance and Corporate Resources, to undertake all necessary due diligence and to finalise the terms of the management arrangement for the bus interchange on a revenue cost neutral position.