Agenda item

Project Highlight reports covering December 2023/January 2024 are attached as listed below:

a.         P-21.02 NORA EZ – Road Infrastructure

b.         P-21.03a NORA EZ – Development of spec units – phase 1

c.         P-21.04 NORA 4

d.         P-21.05 Major Housing – Florence Fields – TO FOLLOW

e.         P-21.06 Major Housing – Salters Road

f.          P-21.08 Major Housing – Southend Road – TO FOLLOW

g.         P-21.09 West Winch Growth Area

h.         P-21.10a Southgates – Place Making

i.          P-21.10b Southgates – STARS

j.          P-21.18 3G pitch

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The Board were advised that the Project Highlight reports for Southend Road and Florence Fields contained exempt information relating to contracts, finances and would be considered by the Board when they moved into Exempt Session at the end of the meeting.

Officers presented the Highlight Reports, as included in the Agenda as follows:

NORA Speculative Units.

Infrastructure was ongoing to be available for the opening of the Surgery Development.

There had been some issues with surface water and drainage relating to the attenuation tanks which ran into the main drains and a resolution was being sought.

There had been interest in the Speculative units, with some companies eager to get in.

The issue relating to roadworks contamination had now been resolved.  Cabinet had agreed to additional work to be carried out to move contaminated soil off site at the request of the Environment Agency.

Assistant Director, Matthew Henry, explained that work was ongoing with the IDB’s and other relevant organisations to rectify the issues with the attenuation tanks.

NORA 4

This site was at handover point and all properties were now occupied.

A Post Project Evaluation Report was scheduled to be presented to the Board at their next meeting in May.

Salters Road

Housing on this site was being delivered in partnership with Lovells and housing would be handed over to Freebridge Housing Association upon completion.  The site was a 100% affordable scheme.

The Board agreed that comms and publicity should be carried out to promote the Council development and contribution to providing affordable homes for Borough Residents.  It was explained that Corporate Performance Monitoring did show information on the delivery and transfer of homes, and community development events were held.

The Board were also reminded that Creating Community Events had been held and these were looking to be extended to other developments.

West Winch Growth Area

This Project was on target and some key milestones had now been reached.  The Planning Application for the Road was now live on the Norfolk County Council Planning Portal.

Councillor Parish commented that there would be press releases to inform the public of progress.

Southgates

This project was moving forward and funding routes were being investigated.

STARS

This was a Norfolk County Council Project.  Timescales and Risks were currently being looked at.

Councillor Parish commented that it was important that communications and publicity focussed on the impact of the works on traffic flow. 

RESOLVED: The Board asked officers to liaise with Norfolk County Council so that updates and a timetable could be made available to Councillors so that they could answer resident queries relating to the scheme. 

3G Pitch

The previous planning application for this had been withdrawn and work was ongoing to move the scheme forward.

The Board discussed if the 3G Pitch should be considered as a Major Project and agreed that it should be removed from the list of current projects.

RESOLVED: 1. Officers to provide an update on the current position of the planning application and potential location for the site.

2. Officers to put a request through to Cabinet to seek removal of the 3G Pitch from the list of Major Projects.