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The Director
of Technical Services submitted a Report seeking approval for a number of
amendments to the current financial, legal and operational aspects related to
the Marybank Depot, Stornoway. The
Report gave background information and commented in particular on the
following issues:
(a) the high incidents of contaminated
ground within the depot site;
(b) inadequate office accommodation;
(c) insufficient
parking areas for Commercial Operations Unit, Technical Services and Environmental
vehicle fleets;
(d) the
lack of a corporate storage facility;
(e) the
situation relating to the availability of adequate capital funding to
implement any solution or solutions; and
(f) the
inclusion of the depot on the Commercial Operations Unit Trading Account.
It was
suggested in the Report that it would be appropriate to give consideration to
a phased delivery of a programme of improvements at the Marybank Depot site
with the main elements of such a programme being:
(a) the
implementation of contaminated land remediation measures identified in the
Report by WA Fairhurst and for which Scottish Executive funding had been
secured;
(b) the
consideration of the relocation of the Environmental Services Operation to
the Waste Processing Plant;
(c) the
provision of improved office accommodation; and
(d) the
provision of a corporate storage facility.
It was agreed to recommend, insofar as the Board’s
interests were concerned, that the Comhairle:
(a)
note the issues and constraints that exist for the operation of
the Marybank Depot site;
(b)
agree to the transfer of the property from the budgetary
responsibility of the Commercial Operations Unit to that of the Policy and
Resources Committee;
(c)
that terms and conditions based on fair market value be agreed
with occupiers of any and all accommodation and areas of ground within the
site;
(d)
note the current availability of internal and external funding to
carry forward the delivery of a number of elements of the proposed programme
of improvements detailed in paragraph 9.2 of the Report and agree that the
funding shortfall be considered in the context of the development of the
Capital Programme 2008-2012; and
(e)
authorise the Director for Sustainable Communities, in
consultation with the Director of
Ionmhas, the Director of Corporate Services and the Director of
Technical Services, to further consider the financial, legal and technical
implications arising from a possible relocation of Environmental Services
Personnel and vehicle fleet from Marybank Depot to the Waste Recycling Plant
at the Creed Enterprise Park and to present the findings of this
consideration to a future meeting of the relevant Committee, or Committees,
by December 2007.
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