Issue - meetings

The Executive are recommended to make the resolutions set out in the report

at agenda item 8.

Co-Portfolio Holder for Housing (Delivery)

The Executive RESOLVED to:

     I.        Use the current Latent Defects budget to procure a Contractor to carry out the required remedial works.

    II.        Allocate a £114,225 budget from Latent Defects budget that exists within the Housing Revenue Account Delivery Budget.

  III.        Delegate authority to the Executive Head of Legal and Democratic Services to approve the final form of any legal agreement including JCT Contract.

  IV.        Delegate authority to the Strategic Director (Wellbeing) to enter into any related contract documentation or ancillary agreements required to the remedying of these latent defects.

Councillor Paul Rivers introduced the report and explained that properties at 1,2, 3 and 4 Cedar Close were delivered as part of the new build housing delivery programme completed in 2017. Those homes had developed latent building defects which resulted in noisy floor joists and uneven first floor levels. The defects were present in No 4 Cedar Close but were successfully remedied in July 2019. The remaining three properties had been due to be completed but the impact of Covid-19 meant that access had not been possible. Those properties were now due to be remedied. Tenants were not expected to have to move out whilst the works took place, and it was estimated that the works would be completed promptly. 

There being no further discussion, the Executive RESOLVED unanimously to:

1.    Use the current Latent Defects budget to procure a Contractor to carry out the required remedial works.

2.    Allocate a £114,225 budget from Latent Defects budget that exists within the Housing Revenue Account Delivery Budget.

3.    Delegate authority to the Executive Head of Legal and Democratic Services to approve the final form of any legal agreement including JCT Contract.

4.    Delegate authority to the Strategic Director (Wellbeing) to enter into any related contract documentation or ancillary agreements required to the remedying of these latent defects.

Reasons:

1. The defects in these properties are long standing and will only be permanently resolved by the proposed type of intervention.
2. The Waverley Corporate Strategy 2020-2025 sets out the Vision and Strategic Priorities for the Council. One of the strategic priorities is to ‘provide good quality housing for all income levels.’