Decision details

A report outlining the Low Carbon Housing Pilot Project response to the Council’s climate emergency declaration, and the competitive tender process undertaken to procure a specialist qualified and experienced architect-led team to design the scheme and secure full planning permission.

The report will include a private appendix, providing commercially sensitive tender information. The report will request authority to proceed to appoint the design team to design the new housing and to consult members and residents and secure detailed planning permission prior to further Cabinet approval to proceed to build the scheme.

RESOLVED –

1)    That approval be given to the appointment of ECD Architects Ltd to provide architectural, planning and development services in designing, costing, and obtaining an implementable Full Planning Permission for low carbon and Passivhaus residential development at the former RM Grylls school site, and which shall be capable of implementation, as described in the tender exercise as detailed in the report and Private Appendix.

2)    That authority be delegated to the Service Director - Legal, Governance and Commissioning in consultation with the Strategic Director Growth and Regeneration, to enter into and execute a contract with ECD Architects Ltd to provide design, cost, and planning services to the council in developing the proposals and securing an implementable planning permission.