A massively overbudget car park costing £870,000 has been built by a council currently making £8.4m in cuts.
It means each of the 37 spaces at the pay and display site on Monmouth’s Wyebridge Street has cost the taxpayer more than £23,500.
The original estimated cost is unclear but it was expected last year that it would be just over £500,000.
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Massively under quote costs and time to get contract to build carpark
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Begin build, wait until you are too far into it for it to be cancelled without the council looking foolish
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Cut staff to delay. Ramp up the costs
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Council continue to pay.
I’ve never understood why councils work in a way that allows for massive budget overruns. Time, yeah its not always easy to estimate. But when it comes to cost it should be “we are paying x amount for this. If you overrun, you eat the cost”. Forces bids to actually be accurate and an incentive to actually complete it in time.
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Ironic that David Davies, who has been continually sparking the anti-motorist culture war, is opposing motorist infrastructure in his own town.
