Staff working for Parliament's Strategic
Estates are due to occupy new offices in Dartmouth Street and
Victoria Street in 2020. In order to provide power and
communications resilience to those new offices, Parliament's
Strategic Estates have requested that the City Council install new
ducting and cables in the street under a Highways Act s278
agreement.
Decision type: Non-key
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Wards affected: St James's;
Notice of proposed decision first published: 14/12/2019
Anticipated restriction: Fully exempt - View reasons
Explanation of anticipated restriction:
The provision of power and communications cabling to Parliamentary offices is considered to be security sensitive. An exemption from publication is accepted ‘if the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information’. It is considered that the information in this report is of a sufficiently sensitive nature that an exemption can be applied
Decision due: 28 Feb 2020 by Cabinet Member for Environment and Highways
List Documents for Submission: Drawings relating to the extent of the proposed works in Dartmouth Street and Victoria Street