Issue - meetings

Raw Material Supplies

Meeting: 13/10/2021 - Community, Housing & Assets Overview & Scrutiny Committee - Expired 18/10/22 (Item 19)

Raw Material Supplies

To receive a verbal report and provide assurance to the Committee on the highlighted risk identified by the Recovery Committee around raw material shortages which could lead to increase costs, programme delays and increased cases of contractual disputes.

Additional documents:

Decision:

That the Committee feel assured that the risk around raw material supplies was being managed.

Minutes:

The Chief Officer (Housing & Assets), relayed the impact that Covid and Brexit has had on suppliers, and that it had created and continues to create a number of pressures for activities & works including the impact on the speed of a build and the costs of construction.  For example, the costs of timber and windows had increased 30-40% in the current market, and the waiting time for lift components had increased from 12 to up to 30 weeks wait.  Haulage had also been hugely impacted with the shortage of lorry drivers and how quickly goods could come into the Country.

 

He commented that the situation was likely to settle down within the next 12/18 months and added that Officers were currently reviewing all projects to identify which would continue and which would have to be put on hold.

 

Councillor Ron Davies moved that the Committee felt assured that the risk around raw material supplies was being managed.  This was seconded by Councillor Kevin Rush. 

 

            RESOLVED:

 

That the Committee feel assured that the risk around raw material supplies was being managed.