Our budget is £126,000 for the works with the funding from LoROL and developer contributions. I have written to Network Rail today to seek contribution to elements of the upgrade I feel should be funded by them, such as drainage issues, safer steps and handrails and guess this will be a balance of maintenance and betterment where Network Rail do not have betterment funding for this structure but I have been advised by yourselves they had looked to improve the drainage.

So the bottom line figure on the costs is almost £160k which includes contractor costs, our internal costs, Network Rail licence/approval costs (Estimated) and contingencies. In broad terms this is broken down as follows. A warning on these figures is we have not yet negotiated on these prices.;

Preliminaries £17,800 (includes design, approvals with network rail and site set up)
Staircases £28,200 (including repairs to steps on both sides, new anti slip nosing and handrail wall and centre)
Footway £ 7,400 (including overlay surface and new drain)
Brick Walls £ 4,400 (clean off and paint existing mural)
Cladding Walls £34,000 (cladding walls and guttering replacement)
Cladding ceiling £39,000 (cladding without fixing to structure)
Contingency £13,000 (for unforeseen drain and fixing issues - needs to be budgeted but hopefully not spent)

Supervision £10,000 (Lewisham 8% of budget)
Network Rail £ 5,000 (Licences, approvals and site supervision)

TOTAL COST EST £158,800

With this information we will be discussing value engineering options with the contractor and also, as mentioned, funding from Network Rail for undertaking what I see as maintenance element of work. Once we know the outcome of this we will know where we stand with the overall budget, but at present we are requiring saving/funding of £32,200 - which we will look at contingency, preliminaries and goodwill form Network Rail

You will note there is no element for lighting or CCTV. From our discussions I feel the current CCTV arrangement is sufficient and not beneficial to spend money on a system that is already in place. For the lighting the works are covered by the PFI lighting contract and scheduled to take place in August, 2012. Therefore I would recommend we work towards the works being undertaken around this August window so we do not incur costs for rescheduling the lighting works.

We will continue to progress the approvals working with Network Rail but with a recommended August site date do not see the approvals and licences causing any programme issues.