CE Management Report July 2020.pdf

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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 2019, with 697 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 5 schemes at Blackrock, Tramore Road, Ard Aoibhinn and Blarney Street totalling 107 new homes. Construction has reached practical completion on schemes at High Street and White Street consisting of 52 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, with all schemes recommenced on site in May 2020 (as per the Government’s roadmap for phased reopening). 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. The Part 8 process for these projects, at Denroches Cross and Hawkes Road, were re-advertised in June to recommence process. The Part 8 process for proposed projects at Redemption Heights, Sunview and Wolsley Court were advertised in July 2020. Capital appraisals were approved by the DHPLG for the construction of 42 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 been completed and are now tenanted. 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 51 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 uni ts at St. John’s Well are at practical completion stage. 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 (32 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