Capital Works __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Members will be aware that the Department of Housing, Planning & Local Government (DHPLG) announced delivery targets under the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing & Homelessness across a range of housing programmes. Cork City Council successfully met and exceeded its target for 2018 across the Build, Acquisition and Leasing delivery programme providing 461 homes of which 292 homes were from the Local Authority and AHB Sector build programmes. Delivery has further increased in 2019, with over 600 homes delivered jointly by the Local Authority and AHB Sector under their Build, Acquisition and Leasing delivery programme.
The City Council continues to advance a strong delivery programme which can be summarised as follows:
Construction : Cork City Council placed a contract notice on the E Tenders website and the OJEU (Official Journal of the European Union) to procure innovative solutions to meeting housing targets under the Social Housing Strategy (SHS) including the construction and completion of housing projects under a parallel site acquisition and development agreement with the City Council, using a Competitive Dialogue procurement process. In Phase 1 of Competitive Dialogue, 11 schemes comprising 215 homes have progressed with the approval of the DHPLG. Construction has been completed on 4 schemes at Blackrock, Tramore Road and Ard Aoibhinn totalling 82 homes. Construction has reached practical completion on schemes at High Street, Blarney Street, and White Street consisting of 77 new homes. A further two schemes consisting of 48 units are due to commence construction in 2020. A further contract notice was placed on the E Tenders website and the OJEU, with a closing date of September 2017, to seek submissions from candidates for the delivery of more new homes using this procurement process. In Phase 2 of Competitive Dialogue, three schemes have commenced on site comprising a total of 35 homes. Further schemes have been shortlisted to progress to the next phase of procurement, involving a Part 8 process, or are at tender stage. A number of the schemes under consideration have been advertised for Part 8, with 8 of the schemes (130 new homes) now with Part 8 approval in place. The Covid-19 pandemic necessitated the Government mandated shut down of construction sites at the end of March. Four projects were deemed essential and allowed to recommence construction in April. The schemes that are currently at Part 8 permission stage and going through the public consultation process have been affected by the extension of timelines under Planning legislation, with the Part 8 period put on hold as a result of the Governments Covid-19 restrictions. Capital appraisals were approved by the DHPLG for the construction of 41 housing units at Gerald Griffin Street & 65 units at Deanrock, Togher. The construction of the units together with a community facility at Deanrock, Togher have reached practical completion and have been advertised on CBL. The enabling works have been completed for the development of the units at Gerald Griffin Street with the construction of the units due to commence in 2020. The DHPLG has approved funding for 5 1 units at Boyce’s Street and works for this project have commenced. DHPLG funding is in place for two further projects - 9 units at 5/6 Shandon Street/John Philpott Curran Street, which has commenced on site, and a further 6 units at St. John’s Well are at practical completion stage. The works that are currently on site have been stopped as a result of the Governments Covid-19 restrictions. Further funding has been approved by the DHPLG for the construction of new housing units located at Glenamoy Lawn (3 units), Foyle Avenue (3 units), Bramble Cottages (5 units) & Errigal Heights (20 units). Three of the projects are being designed to progress to Part 8 planning application and the Foyle Avenue project has been tendered. A 7 unit development in the Hollywood Estate has been approved by the DHPLG and a 1 unit development in Mayfield was approved by the DHPLG in November 2019, both of which are now being progressed to Part 8 planning. In addition, as 70 unit development at Poulavone, originally a Cork County Council project, was advertised for Part 8 in February 2020, although the Part 8 period has been put on hold as a result of the Governments Covid-19 restrictions. Further to the scheme of 28 units at Sheridan Park, Tramore Road which completed in February, 2017, an additional 3 units were delivered in 2018 as an extensi on of the original ‘Turnkey Acquisition’. The City Council contracted for the purchase of an additional 5 units at Ard Aoibhinn, Banduff with the scheme completing in 2018. A total of 5 units at 37-39 Dublin Street were also constructed and completed in 2018. 6 new homes were completed via turnkey in 2019 in Ballinlough. A further 29 new homes at Maryborough Ridge have now delivered and been advertised on CBL. The completion of the Arus Mhuire complex contains 30 units with a mix of 1 and 2 bedroom bungalows and apartments. It is a designated older persons’ complex, housing homeowners looking to downsize and transfers for elderly tenants requiring more suitable accommodation. Tuath are managing the complex for Cork City Council. The project won an award at the ICSH Community Housing Awards under the “Housing for Older People, Large Project” Category and most recently in November 2019 won a Chambers Ireland Excellence in Local Government Award in the Local Authority Innovation Category. The Scheme has also been shortlisted in the CIH Awards Innovation Category to be announced in February 2020. A similar scheme is proposed for the Springville House site, Blackrock Road, Cork.
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