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Contract for Asbestos Removals

Meeting: 22/04/2020 - Executive (Item 116)

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Decision:

That the Business Case be approved to enable the Housing Service to procure a suitably qualified, experienced and competent contractor for the delivery of Asbestos Management for the Council’s housing stock.

Minutes:

The Executive considered a report relating to a procurement business case for a new contract for Asbestos Management and Abatement Services for the Council’s housing stock in compliance with its statutory duties.

 

The Executive Member for Finance and Housing informed the meeting that a number of Council houses had, when asbestos was an acceptable building material, previously been built using materials that contained asbestos. As a landlord the Council had a legal duty to manage the asbestos within its buildings and manage the health and safety risks where there was any possibility of tenants or contractors being exposed to fibres of asbestos containing materials.  As a result of this duty the Council needs to appoint a suitably qualified, experienced and competent contractor to undertake the controlled removal and disposal of all forms of asbestos containing materials.

 

The cost was likely to be in excess of £500k and it was noted that this would come from the Housing Revenue Account which was a ring-fenced fund designed to maintain and service the Council’s social housing.

 

RESOLVED:  That the Business Case be approved to enable the Housing Service to procure a suitably qualified, experienced and competent contractor for the delivery of Asbestos Management for the Council’s housing stock.