WCCC 19/005 - Appointment of Consultants to provide Stage 4, 5 and Resident Engineer Services for LIAHF Contracts

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Waterford City and County Council has been granted funding under the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) for two residential road schemes at Gracedieu and Kilbarry in Waterford City. The Gracedieu development consists of a 200m long access road to support an initial development of circa 240 housing units. This access road connects to the existing road network with a roundabout on the south side of the scheme and a major/minor road junction to the northern side of the access road. Gracedieu DevelopmentLocated in the North West Suburbs of Waterford City, it is proposed to develop a roads infrastructure to support the initial development of 200 housing units. •The roads infrastructure will serve a site of approx. 7.4 ha. •The estimated capital cost is €1.5m.•For site location and works details refer to the accompanying design drawings.The Kilbarry distributor road is approximately 1.05kms in length and commences at the Musgrave Roundabout at Kilbarry (Six Cross Roads) and extends in an easterly direction joining the Lacken Road for an approximate distance of 400m. It was intended that this road would continue and join the existing Tesco roundabout, however due to landownership issues, only the foul and surface water pipes will continue to the roundabout at this time, the road, footpaths and public lighting will stop approximately 600m short and be constructed at another time. Kilbarry Distributor RoadThis proposal relates to the provision of a distributor road network to open up a land bank in the Lacken / Kilbarry area of Waterford City. •This involves opening up of a large tract of residentially zoned lands consisting of approx. 105ha. •The land is zoned as High Density and Low Density housing with mixed use, open space and community facilities. It will provide community facilities, amenity spaces, and parkland and neighbourhood services along with the development potential of 450 housing units by 2021 with a longer term potential of 1500 units. •The estimated c