Telford Council rent to cost £50 million, claims leader
Friday 7th October 2011, 7:00PM BST.
A former leader of Telford & Wrekin Council today claimed a decision to take out a 99-year lease on rented offices will cost taxpayers more than £50 million in rent alone.
Councillor Andrew Eade, leader of the Tory administration which lost out to the Labour group in May, says many millions more will be spent on full repairs and maintenance bills before the Darby House site is returned to its current owners.
He claims the cost would equate to one per cent of homeowners’ council tax bills in the borough.
But Telford & Wrekin Council leader Councillor Kuldip Sahota hit back at Councillor Eade describing his comments as ‘crazy economics’ and said Darby House had been an integral part of Conservative plans to build ‘expensive’ civic offices at Southwater which residents ‘rejected’.
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Oh, dear. There will be tears before this saga is over!
For example, what happens when TWC suddenly remembers it has no council chamber for full meetings?
Block book Oakengates Theatre? Hire school halls? Hire a marquee?
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