Failed Isles of Scilly link wasted nearly £4m
Back in May, Cornwall Council said it had spent more than £700,000 in pursuit of its "Option A" for the redevelopment of Penzance harbour. The council has now published more details:
"Overall the IOSL scheme has cost £3.850m, this is funded from £1.317m
of third party funding and £2.533m of Council funding."
Comment number 1.
At 14th Jul 2011, Saltashgaz wrote:The perfect metaphor for Cornwall council’s mentality towards public funds, but lets not forget a professional protestors not even living in the area was allowed to stir up a hornets nest, helped by the media given him an advantageous voice over local residence, lessons need to be learnt to prevent this common Saga when considering local issues
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Comment number 2.
At 15th Jul 2011, Dave the rave wrote:The power of complainers to get things stopped should never be underestimated, their power to get things fixed should never be overestimated.
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Comment number 3.
At 18th Jul 2011, Rob wrote:Anybody seen/ heard Andrew George's interview with Radio Scilly
interesting, u turn springs to mind.
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