Hammersmith Police Station – Additional Approval

The Hammersmith Redevelopment project currently has an approved budget of £62.63m. Additional costs of upto £5.47m are now requested in order to complete the project. The additional costs are to be funded from within the MPS capital programme.

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime is recommended to:

1. To approve expenditure of £68.10m for the redevelopment of Hammersmith. Noting this represents an increase of £5.47m on the existing budget of £62.63m, of which £3.85m has already been provided for in the capital programme approved in February 2019.

2. To approve the realignment of Optimism Bias of £1.62m from the budget for the redevelopment of Charing Cross to provide the balance of funding required for the redevelopment of Hammersmith.

3. Note the redevelopment of Charing Cross is due to complete later this financial year, and the balance of funds left to fund the project are considered to be sufficient.

1. Introduction and background

1.1. The Hammersmith Redevelopment was initially approved in 2017. This paper requests approval for additional funding to complete the project.

2. Issues for consideration

2.1. The detail of the additional costs required to complete this project are set out in Part 2, and in summary include costs related to ground contamination, asbestos, cladding, security and ICT, Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) and Carbon Tax , contingency and MPS project management costs.

3. Financial Comments

3.1. Additional capital approval for £5.47m is sought in order to finalise this project, and the funding has been identified from within the currently approved capital programme.

4. Legal Comments

4.1. Section 6 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (“the Act”) provides the MOPAC must secure the maintenance of the Metropolitan Police Service, and secure that the Metropolitan Police is efficient and effective.

4.2. In carrying out its functions, the MOPAC may, under paragraph 7, Schedule 3 of “the Act “do anything which is calculated to facilitate, or is conducive or incidental to, the exercise of the functions of the Office”. This includes, entering into contracts and other agreements, in addition to acquiring and disposing of property (including land

4.3. Under 4.9 of the MOPAC Scheme of Delegation and Consent the DMPC must approve “Budget virements or movements of £500,000 and above, (whether on a temporary or permanent basis”

5. Commercial Issues

5.1. See Part 2

6. GDPR and Data Privacy

6.1. The programme does not use personally identifiable data of members of the public, so there are no GDPR issues to be considered

7. Equality Comments

7.1. There are no direct equality implications arising from this proposal.

8. Background/supporting papers

8.1. MPS Paper.