Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Finance

Forward Plan Ref: 2023/005

Contact: Belinda Dimmock-Smith, Capital Programme Manager, belinda.dimmocksmith@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Report by Director of Finance (CA13).

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

a)                      approve the revised budget provision of £11.2m for Wantage Eastern Link Road (Section 3).

b)                      approve the addition £2.7m road safety works in the vicinity of RAF Barford St John and RAF Croughton to the capital programme.

c)                      approve the addition of £4.0m of the £5.0m pipeline funding agreed in February 2023 to the capital programme to support the Vision Zero Delivery Programme.

d)                      approve the revised budget provision of £23.1m for the delivery of the new secondary school at Grove Airfield.

e)                      approve the revised budget provision of £9.3m for the completion of works at Blessed George Napier School, Banbury.

f)                        approve the addition of £0.8m to the programme to create an Energy Efficiency Recycling Fund for Oxfordshire County Council Maintained Schools.

Recommendations approved.

Cabinet had before it a report setting out change requests requiring Cabinet approval that would be incorporated into the agreed programme and included in the next update to the Capital Programme in July 2023.   

Councillor Miller, Cabinet Member for Finance, introduced the report and explained the reasons for the proposed changes to the capital programme.

Councillor Miller moved, Councillor Sudbury seconded the recommendations, and they were approved.

RESOLVED to:-

a)    approve the revised budget provision of £11.2m for Wantage Eastern Link Road (Section 3).

b)    approve the addition £2.7m road safety works in the vicinity of RAF Barford St John and RAF Croughton to the capital programme.

c)    approve the addition of £4.0m of the £5.0m pipeline funding agreed in February 2023 to the capital programme to support the Vision Zero Delivery Programme.

d)    approve the revised budget provision of £23.1m for the delivery of the new secondary school at Grove Airfield.

e)    approve the revised budget provision of £9.3m for the completion of works at Blessed George Napier School, Banbury.

f)      approve the addition of £0.8m to the programme to create an Energy Efficiency Recycling Fund for Oxfordshire County Council Maintained Schools.