2021 Report details for project: A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down

Project name A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down - there are 7 reports for this project: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
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Organisation DFT (D9) - see all reports for this organisation
Report year 2021 (data is from March 2021)
Category Infrastructure - see all reports for this category
Description: Free-flowing dual carriageway replacing the current single lane on the A303 between Amesbury and Berwick Down including a twin bore tunnel under the majority of the World Heritage Site and a by-pass and viaduct to the north of Winterbourne Stoke.
DCA (RAG) Amber
DCA text: Compared to financial year 19/20-Q2, the Infrastructure Project Authority's Delivery Confidence Assessment rating remained at Amber. This is primarily due to the following factors: The project has been reprofiled to manage impact to schedule and cost estimate arising from delay of DCO Decision from 2 April 2020 to 12 November 2020. This revised baseline was approved by DfT's Investment, Portfolio and Delivery Committee on 22 March 2021. A legal challenge to the Secretary of State Development Consent Order (DCO) decision has been mounted by the 'Save Stonehenge WHS' group. Should this be successful or result in an appeal or injunction, this could have a significant (> 6 months) impact on key project milestones. Coronavirus is having a minimal impact on the project as suitable IT measures are in place and work progresses. Invitation to Participate in Dialogue was issued to three European consortia on 1 May 2020. The competitive dialogue is now well underway and we are working towards contract award in early 2022.
Start date 2014-12-01
End date 2033-12-31
Schedule text Compared to financial year 19/20-Q2, the project's end-date increased from 01 June 2028 to 31 December 2033 This is primarily due to the following factors: The 1920-Q2 project end date was a legacy approved date, estimated at Strategic Outline Business Case and updated during submission of the Outline Business Case. This has since been revised further to manage schedule and cost impact of the slippage to Development Consent Order decision. The current Open For Traffic date as approved by DfT's Investment, Portfolio and Delivery Committee (IPDC) 22 March 2021 is 31 December 2028. In addition, the change to public finance in March-20, requires a five-year operating window following 'open for traffic' before formally handing the route over to Operations Directorate making the project end date Dec-33.
Baseline £30.00m
Forecast £30.00m
Variance 0.00%
Variance text: The budget variance is less than or equal to 5%. The delay of Development Consent Order (DCO) decision from April 2020 to 12 November 2020 added a six month delay to start of Preliminary Works as work could not be started until a DCO Decision was received. This start of works has been delayed further due to an ongoing Judicial Review into the Secretary of State's DCO decision. Consequently, the majority of the accrued cost will now present in FY21/22 rather than FY20/21. This change is recorded and approved by DfT's Investment, Portfolio and Delivery Committee 22 March 2021.
Whole Life Cost £1,977.00m
WLCost text: Compared to financial year 19/20-Q2, the projects Baseline Whole Life Cost increased from £1919.90m to £1977.00m. This is primarily due to the following factors: Funding Assurance for the project was delayed from October 2019 to March 2020 to coincide with the Chancellor's Budget Announcement regarding Strategic Transport Infrastructure in general, and the A303 Stonehenge Project in particular. This delay, coupled with an initial delay to Development Consent Order (DCO) decision from 2 April 2020 to 17 July 2020, resulted in significant rework to activity already completed, delay to planned activity and commensurate increase of cost as stated above - this was acknowledged by HMT in October 2020. The impact of further delay of the DCO Decision to 12 November 2020 has resulted in a reprofiling of cost due to inflation, which was approved at DfT's Investment, Portfolio and Delivery Committee 22 March 2021.
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