Taken from the windows project website goldenlane.site
crescent house
From where we are now to starting on site
The Project Team are currently preparing documents for the two stage tender process and anticipate issuing the Stage 1, Expression of Interest (EOI) at the beginning of July. It should then take around 4 months to complete both Stage 1 and Stage 2, Invitation to Tender (ITT), and evaluate the final shortlist.
The final shortlist of at least two bids, along with estimated costs for the recoverable elements of the works, will be included in the statutory Section 20 leaseholder consultation process.
At the end of the 35 day Section 20 consultation, a report on the outcome of the procurement exercise will be produced. This will then be presented to Children and Community Services (CCS) Committee recommending an award of contract.
The report must be available to members two weeks in advance of the meeting. The Project Team have earmarked the January 2025 committee which means the report will need to be finalised before Christmas 2024.
City of London recoverable costs (recharges to leaseholders)
The Quantity Surveyor is currently working on estimated cost budgets and as part of that work will produce a cost schedule which will be passed to the City of London Corporation Legal Department for an opinion as to what elements are recoverable from leaseholders. A report will then be presented to CCS Committee for approval, hopefully at the July meeting.
Once the decision has been made on which elements are recoverable and the tender process complete the Project Manager will then present a schedule of those estimated costs to the Home Ownership team who will then deduct any abatements and apply each leaseholder’s dwelling % in order to arrive at the individual estimated costs for the Section 20 notice.
the wider estate
Phase two of the project to revitalise Golden Lane Estate takes in the Grade II listed buildings of Cullum Welch House, Stanley Cohen House and the Maisonette blocks (Basterfield House, Bayer House, Bowater House, Cuthbert Harrowing and Hatfield House).
An empty flat in each block type has been identified as a proto-pilot project so that the same Crescent House windows refurbishment team have the opportunity to work on all the different window types and inform strategy for the works. The frames will be refurbished, solutions for installing trickle vents explored, strategies developed as to how to reduce impact on residents when works take place, etc.
At the moment we foresee that Cullum Welch House will be the first to undergo refurbishment, followed by Stanley Cohen and then the Maisonette Blocks. The works will be staggered, not sequential, and the Project Team are also looking at the feasibility of undertaking roof works separately from the windows refurbishment, potentially speeding up that element of the programme.
