{"id":24950,"date":"2016-07-11T15:06:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T15:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planningandbuildingcontroltoday.co.uk\/?p=24950"},"modified":"2016-09-20T10:36:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T10:36:41","slug":"kier-contract-stoke-city-council-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/kier-contract-stoke-city-council-end\/24950\/","title":{"rendered":"Kier contract with Stoke City Council to end"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span>A \u00a340m a year repairs contract between Kier and Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to end\u2026<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Repair work and maintenance of council housing and public buildings in Stoke-on-Trent will no longer be undertaken by Kier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoke.gov.uk\/ccm\/portal\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Stoke-on-Trent City Council<\/span><\/a> has revealed plans to end its \u00a340m a year deal with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kier.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Kier<\/span><\/a>, with the council stating \u201cfuture options are being examined for the maintenance and repair of council housing and public buildings in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 10-year deal between the local authority and Kier was first agreed in 2008. The joint venture, which is set to end in 2018, saw Kier take responsibility for repairs on 18,500 homes and public buildings in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The city council has suggested it would prefer to create a \u201ccouncil-owned company\u201d to carry out repairs and maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>The council said: \u201cIt would continue the type of work currently undertaken by the same joint venture staff, and would look to provide opportunities for local contractors on longer term arrangements than have previously existed \u2013 giving the chance for local businesses to grow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition, it would create opportunities to carry out third party work as a way of generating income into the council so it can be more sustainable for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Council leader Dave Conway also commented: \u201cIt is no secret that I have had some concerns with the joint venture with Kier Stoke, but I wanted this review to be undergone fairly, robustly and in a measured way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is right that this has been examined independently in good time ahead of the contract ending in early 2018. We work closely with Kier Stoke and this will continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want tenants to experience any disruption and we want to further improve services. There should also be no concern for staff at this stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been many changes in local government since the joint venture began, and we need to be looking at ways to generate income, while also doing more to support our excellent local businesses in bidding for work locally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to local paper Stoke Sentinel, Kier Housing Maintenance managing director David Mawson said: \u201cGiven the severe financial pressure that councils are under, it\u2019s understandable that when contracts come to an end they will look to take things back in-house to try to cut cost by being able to cut back the service as budgets dictate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s obviously a shame because the joint venture has been incredibly successful, but we will work with the council through to February 2018 to provide an excellent service for residents, stability for the Kier Stoke team and our supply chain partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u00a340m a year repairs contract between Kier and Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to end\u2026 Repair work and maintenance of council housing and public buildings in Stoke-on-Trent will no longer be undertaken by Kier. Stoke-on-Trent City Council has revealed plans to end its \u00a340m a year deal with Kier, with the council stating \u201cfuture options [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kier contract with Stoke City Council to end | Planning, Building &amp; Construction Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A \u00a340m a year repairs contract between Kier and Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to end\u2026\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/kier-contract-stoke-city-council-end\/24950\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kier contract with Stoke City Council to end\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A \u00a340m a year repairs contract between Kier and Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to end\u2026\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/kier-contract-stoke-city-council-end\/24950\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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