Orchard House children’s home in Cuckfield is part of the County Council’s Residential Service and caters for residential placements and short breaks for children with disabilities, with capacity for up to 16 children at one time.
Remodelling and refurbishment works are required to resolve critical issues, modernise the home and improve the facilities for those children resident at the home and those who undertake short breaks there.
Capital funding totalling £4.928m has so far been allocated to deliver this project, through Cabinet Member Key Decisions in March 2021 CYP04(20/21) and in December 2021 CYP04 (21/22). Since those decisions were taken, design development has taken place and inflationary pressures have led to construction cost rises, thus, the combination of these two factors means additional funding is now required to enable the project to continue.
Decision type: Key
Reason Key: Expenditure > £500,000;
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Divisions affected: Cuckfield & Lucastes;
Notice of proposed decision first published: 01/09/2022
Decision due: October 2022 by Cabinet Member for Children and Young People (Cllr Jacquie Russell)
Lead member: Cabinet Member for Children and Young People (Cllr Jacquie Russell)
Contact: Eleni Zikou, Client Project Manager Email: eleni.zikou@westsussex.gov.uk Tel: 07709718446.
Consultation process
Representations concerning this proposed decision can be made to the decision maker, via the officer contact, by the beginning of the month in which the decision is due to be taken.
Consultees
Cabinet Member for Finance and Property
Democratic Services Contact: Wendy Saunders Tel: 033 022 22553