The latest information I've been given is that it's taken longer than expected to work out how to fit the facsimiles of the original seating to the varied mounting points on Ben Jonson Highwalk. Among the many problems with Victor's seats, the fact that they don't even correctly fit where they've been placed is whopper, so it's good that the City is taking care to make this good.
There is currently no new schedule as far as I'm aware.
I've never used the Freedom of Information mechanisms. I think a good test case would be asking for the cost of surprising residents by designing and installing Victor's seats, destroying the originals and now making facsimiles of the originals and tearing out Victor's seats to install the facsimiles.
And over on St. Giles Terrace we see that Victor's seats are not standing the test of time. The old seating was there for decades, the new stuff has only been there for a little while, and yet:
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| Victor's seats: bent out of shape |
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