crescent house windows project recent delays
At the March 2024 Wardmote the following Resolution was passed:
The project to upgrade the entire Golden Lane Estate is complex and extensive. It is also seriously overdue and must not be subject to further unnecessary and avoidable delays.
With this in mind we ask the City of London Corporation to review the working practice, protocols and resources of the various departments involved in supporting the Major Works Team (including but not exclusively Procurement, Finance and Legal) so as to make the internal bureaucracies as smooth as possible.
The Ward mote resolves that officers investigate the reasons for delays incurred since the planning for Crescent House was granted in December last year; and from that report produce a critical path programme for delivery.
This programme should encompass all the milestones for internal approval processes, design and anticipated construction timetabling, not only of Crescent House but the programme for the whole of the estate, and that this report and programme be shared with residents not later than July 2024. Time is of the essence.
CoL response
From the ‘Wardmote updates’ report presented to the 20 September 2024 Children’s Service Committee:
Officers have investigated the delays following the approval of additional design development funds by the Community & Children’s Services Committee in November 2023. The delay has been determined as being caused by issues with internal processes and resource issues which have now been resolved. Programme updates for both Crescent House and the wider Estate have been shared with residents via the projects’ website (www.goldenlane.site) in May 2024, and further updated in September 2024, with additional regular updates via the Residents’ Liaison Group. More detailed programmes for the wider Estate will be developed and shared following submission of planning applications which are expected to be submitted in January 2025.
Residents must now hope that the ‘issues with internal processes and resource issues’ have indeed been resolved and the Wider Estate (Phase 2) will not be hampered with the same delays caused by internal bureaucracy as faced by Crescent House.
