Issue - meetings

Consideration was given to the report of the Head of Community Services which was presented to provide Members with updated information on the progress of capital projects over £500,000 in cost, undertaken within the Authority and, where appropriate, seek the necessary approval required under the Contract Procedural Rules to additional expenditure incurred on a particular project.

The Head of Community Services spoke to the report and highlighted the main points contained therein.

A Member enquired regarding work at the Big Arch, Steelworks Road, Ebbw Vale.  The Head of Community Services advised that work was due to start shortly and would then become a live scheme over £500,000 for reporting into Scrutiny Committee.

A Member enquired regarding progress on the allocation of funding to redesign the junction at Bedwellty Pits.  The Head of Community Services advised this was not yet a contracted scheme to report on.  Feasibility money had been received from the Welsh Government to look at what could be done at the junction and currently the Council were seeking approval to extend that funding into next year to move forward on that scheme.

The Committee AGREED to recommend that the report be accepted and endorse Option 1; namely that the information included within the report be accepted as presented.