Decisions

A delegated decision is required due to a yearly MHCLG bidding cycle, with tight deadlines between award being announced and services needing to be in place. This was further delayed this year because of the focus on ‘Everyone In’ and other emergency funding packages that MHCLG needed to prioritise. Bristol’s final RSI4 award level was communicated on 19th May 2021.

Approval to accept Ministry of Housing, Communities

Bristol City Council have been successfully awarded funding from the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to deliver energy saving measures to low-income, low EPC rated households within Bristol and North Somerset.
Bristol City Council’s Energy Service have developed the Bright Green Homes project and intend to install underfloor insulation to suspended floors and other energy saving measures to these homes with BEIS Funding.

To award a contract to the successful tenderer for the provision of the supply and installation of under floor insultation in 160 homes across Bristol and North Somerset.
The council has run a compliant tender process under the Procurement for Housing ‘Capital Works and Associated Services DPS’. The intention is to award the contract to the successful tenderer. The contract period is 4.5 months.

In March 2020, the majority of the Bristol City Council (BCC) workforce that previously
worked in an office changed to working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This
was in line with UK government laws and guidance. It is the current expectation that all
social distancing laws will be lifted from 21 June 2021. This could include the guidance
around Working from Home. This project is to determine how and when services within
BCC return to the offices including City Hall, the policies and behavioural changes
required for a safe working environment, and the technology that may be required to
support the return to office and new ways of working.
We want to redesign the way BCC staff utilise the workspace and support teams to work
effectively so that teams are enabled to work from the BCC offices if they are to return.
This is an opportunity to re-evaluate the use of the workplace, and potentially rationalising
the BCC estate in the in near future whilst supporting the desire for more home working
for staff.

The decision taken here is to provide funding for the pilot and initial phase of the preparation of Bristol City Council colleagues new ways of working following any easing of COVID-19 restrictions, whilst considering colleague and public safety and wellbeing. The funding includes both revenue and capital to come from the COVID Response funding. The majority of funding are internal department charges. Funding covers scope set out in the project mandate to be performed from May to August 2021.

To accelerate the provision of housing to meet the Mayor’s target of making sure that 2,000 new homes – 1000 affordable – are built in Bristol each year by 2024.

That the Executive Director of Growth and Regeneration in consultation with the Mayor (with appropriate legal, finance and procurement advice) approves entering into contract with Jehu for the construction of 34 new council homes.

To accelerate the provision of housing to meet the Mayor’s target of making sure that 2,000 new homes – 1000 affordable – are built in Bristol each year by 2024.

That the Executive Director of Growth and Regeneration in consultation with the Mayor (with appropriate legal, finance and procurement advice) approves entering into contract with Jehu Group for the construction of 32 new council homes.