Social Value Ideas for Fenland District Council

Summers Court retirement rebuild

Fenland approved the demolition of the existing sheltered housing at Summers Court, Wisbech, and its replacement with 49 retirement apartments. The proposal is being delivered by Housing 21 and includ…

“The scheme provides a total of 49 retirement apartments arranged over ground, first, and second floors comprising predominantly one-bed two-person uni…”

One self-build approved

A single self-build dwelling at Billington Road was approved, subject to a legal agreement securing its self-build/custom-build status. The agent said the applicant had lived there for 14 years, would…

“Speaker 9: Thank you, chair. So agenda item seven is a full application for the erection of one self build custom build dwelling at land east of 1 Bil…”

Contractor procurement for Summers Court

Housing 21 said it was already running a procurement exercise to identify the contractor for the Summers Court redevelopment and expected to move to stage two procurement with a chosen contractor. Mem…

“When do you hope to start um building? >> Uh we want to build as quickly as possible. We we are currently uh in a procurement exercise to identify the…”

Maintenance and cleaning failures

Members reported repeated maintenance and cleaning issues across the leisure centres, especially George Campbell and the Manor: broken lockers, missing keys, failed hand dryers, broken toilet handles,…

“"There's a number of reasons for this. I've written 10 of them down. I'm going to go through them one by one and then they'll give you a chance to ans…”

Gym equipment reprocurement near award

Fenland Council is in the final stages of reprocuring gym equipment, with the cardiovascular kit due to be replaced in late summer or early autumn. Officers said the process is at standstill before su…

“"Just to highlight Fland Council are um reprocuring gym equipment at the moment. So the cardiovascular kit should be replaced in late summer, early au…”

New March deferred

After extensive debate, the committee did not decide the New March application on the day and instead resolved to defer it. Members wanted officers to revisit sports provision, affordable housing phas…

“Speaker 5: Thanks, chair. Chair, we now seem to almost be going around in circles. Pity we haven't got a March bypass. We could go around in circles o…”

Builders’ yard approved

The committee approved a self-build dwelling with a change of use to create a new builder’s yard on Crossgrove. Members accepted that the site was suitable for a yard rather than a town-centre locatio…

“Speaker 15: Thank you, chairman. This is an application for full planning permission for the erection of one self build dwelling and change of use of …”