Issue - meetings
Urgency Powers to Award Works to Talbot Landscapes for the Construction of a Cricket Pitch near Stapleford and Trowell
Meeting: 07/01/2025 - Cabinet (Item 89)
PDF 133 KBThe Chief Executive, in consultation with the
Leader and Deputy Leader of the Council, has given permission to
Officers to appoint Talbot Landscapes to build the replacement
cricket pitch on land adjacent to Field Farm, using funding from
the Stapleford Town Deal. The Leader of the Opposition was also
given an opportunity to comment. This is in accordance with the
Council’s priorities of Business Growth (invest in our towns
and our people), Environment (protect the Environment for the
future) and Health (support people to live well).
Minutes:
Cabinet noted that, after satisfying due diligence checks and consulting partners on the Stapleford Town Deal Board, Talbot Landscapes had been awarded a JCT contract to the value of £268,425.80. The Urgency Powers in the Council constitution allow for such an award to be made on two grounds, the first being that the contract which Talbot Landscapes had been awarded provided a net gain to the flood prevention in the area. The site of new cricket pitch currently has a flow rate into the Boundary Brook of 51.8 litres and so the designs incorporate measures to slow this down to flow into a retention basin which will restrict the flow rate into the brook to 4.6 litres a second. An early start on these works would be advantageous.
The second ground was that the original procurement strategy failed to deliver an appropriate contractor and a retendering exercise could put several months onto a process that was already behind schedule. A cricket pitch takes a considerable period to settle and there is a danger that if the works do not commence early in 2025 the project would run beyond the Town Deal funding deadline of 31 March 2026.