Latest position following the 22 July 2026 crane report — programme recovery, commercial impact, and forecast, in one place.
22 July 2026 report from MTX: Crane 1 can now be completed in 5 weeks, with no impact to the completion date or the overall forecast.
Beyond 5 August, further slippage begins to impact the completion date. The Option 1/Option 2 programme charts elsewhere on this site still show the previous dates — to be updated once the revised dates are confirmed.
Position on crane hire costs and the option-specific works required either side of the revised rig date.
Illustrative for a full 1-month delay beyond the 5 August rig date; scales roughly linearly for shorter or longer delays. This is additional real cost — separate from the cash-flow timing shift shown in the Forecast section below.
Cost to relocate 40 DDA bays, reinstatement and modification of the car park layout, and relocation of DDA spaces post-completion.
Cost to relocate shoreline chargers and provide temporary lighting in Level 1.
Bottom-line monthly cost and cumulative total, extracted from the 14 July 2026 cashflow forecast (P21-0015 — Women's Centre Upgrade). Figures exclude VAT.
| Month | Monthly total | Cumulative total |
|---|---|---|
| Apr-26 | £ – | £0.00 |
| May-26 | £ – | £0.00 |
| Jun-26 | £120,032.00 | £120,032.00 |
| Jul-26 | £610,859.76 * | £730,891.76 |
| Aug-26 | £806,202.31 | £1,537,094.07 |
| Sep-26 | £371,315.37 | £1,908,409.44 |
| Oct-26 | £191,851.79 | £2,100,261.23 |
| Nov-26 | £264,359.78 | £2,364,621.01 |
| Dec-26 | £236,638.10 | £2,601,259.11 |
| Jan-27 | £180,566.54 | £2,781,825.65 |
| Feb-27 | £270,942.89 | £3,052,768.54 |
| Mar-27 | £265,875.34 | £3,318,643.88 |
Cumulative is rebased to £0 at Apr-26 — it reflects spend within this 12-month window only, not the whole-project cumulative (which was already £1,455,400.00 by the end of Mar-26).
* As printed in the source forecast, the Jul-26 monthly figure (£610,859.76) does not fully reconcile against the stated cumulative movement for that month (which implies approx. £490,827.76) — flagging as an apparent inconsistency in the source spreadsheet rather than adjusting it. All other months reconcile exactly.
Whole-window summary only — the source forecast isn't broken down by VAT treatment on a month-by-month basis, so this reconciles the 12-month total rather than adjusting individual monthly figures above. The £726,681 accrual relates to FY25/26 and is excluded from this window's MTX net total.
The table above is net MTX spend. This chart grosses that same monthly profile up proportionally to the £3,303,925.18 total cash cost from the VAT position above (after removing the FY25/26 accrual), then shows what 1, 2, 3 and 4 months of slippage would do to it against a £3m reference.
The dashed lines are illustrative examples only, not a forecast: each shows the same cumulative total cash cost simply pushed back by 1, 2, 3 or 4 months — for reference in case time is lost somewhere in the programme.
| Scenario | Crosses £3m in |
|---|---|
| On programme (no slip) | Feb-27 |
| +1 month slip | Mar-27 |
| +2 months slip | Beyond Mar-27 — outside this window |
| +3 months slip | Beyond Mar-27 — outside this window |
| +4 months slip | Beyond Mar-27 — outside this window |