The most recent progress report made to the Civic Trust Council stated that:

• The work would be completed within the contract period.
• All the electrics had been completed on the top floor and the second fix had been completed on the first floor.
• Considerable digging had taken place on the site (of soakaways), and the foundations of a dwarf wall (to the west side of the property) had been discovered, parallel to the Park Road one.
• An area had been built around the cellar, using engineering brick, to ensure its dryness.
• The painters had completed all the ceilings and stripped away any anaglypter wall coverings.
• The wallpaper restorer is due to come next week.
• The joiners have started on the cover to the lift mechanism (the mechanism to be cleaned and oiled before the cover goes over it).
• The charge for the electricity supply has been reduced from £27K to £19K.
• The mechanisms necessary to operate the electric gates is being installed.
• Provision for the electricity supply can only be completed once the suppliers know who the contractors will be.
• All the kitchen equipment has been ordered (to be fitted at the end of the works).
• Excess grant money can be used, with the agreement of our funding partners, to finance details mentioned in the original funding package: some examples cited are: the gates, railings, paving, gapping up hedges, regravelling paths, moving the blacksmiths' arch to a more suitable position, rebuilding and repositioning the kitchen garden wall, video systems around the house, audio handsets, an outside toilet in the Coach House, additional decoration to the Victorian wing.
• We shall try to get a paved drop-off point for wheelchairs..
• It was confirmed that the Craft Market and Jazz Festival would be able to go ahead and have access to the garden next summer.