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CapitalWorks __________________________________________________________________________________________________
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 4 of the schemes (45 new homes) now with Part 8 approval in place. 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 51 units at Boyce’s Street and work s 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. 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). Two of the projects are being designed to progress to Part 8 planning application and the Foyle Avenue project is due to be tendered in early 2020. 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.
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