Dear Colleagues

Since I last communicated with you about the new scanner, we have had a series of meetings with estates, Yorkshire Water, the utilities companies and other parties.

The upshot of these meetings is that building in the courtyard by the open plan office is just not possible. It is also not feasible (or cheaper) to refurbish an internal space.

Therefore we had to look at the next possibility which was to build parallel to the existing scanner on the side towards Alcuin college.

The difficulty with that site is that we have to move a pipe (blue in the diagram attached). We now know that this is possible.

We would like to seek planning permission for the building as soon as possible.

I have attached two drawings. One is of the proposed site showing the new building (in red), the new pipe and the relocated footpath.

The other is an indicative drawing of the inside layout of the building. I say indicative because this is not a planning issue and the final layout will depend on supplier, magnet and issues related to building control (fire, air handling....). The window in the corridor will not be included as it could lead to a risk of an intruder getting access to the controlled part of the building. The indicated fire escape door in the corridor is also too small and will be enlarged.

Please note that the plant areas indicated give us the opportunity in the future of developing that space for offices.

Please can you comment as soon as possible. We need your input as we have only one opportunity to get this right really.

Even just a simple 'ok' would be helpful too.

I appreciate you are all busy but a response today would really help the team who are going to talk to the planners hopefully next week.

Thanks

Gary