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Published on: 07/03/2024 10:29 AMReported by: editor
As the detailed survey of Southport Pier by civil engineers, A E Yates, has recently finished, local councillors are asking Sefton Council to push for the report from the engineers to be published as soon as possible and before the Local Elections.
Mike Prendergast, Conservative Leader on Sefton Council and Dukes Ward Councillor, is calling on Sefton Council to commit to publishing the report before the Local Elections on May 2nd.
Councillor Prendergast said, “There is a huge amount of public interest in Southport Pier and its ongoing closure is continuing to have a negative impact on our local economy.
The detailed survey is costing local taxpayers around £400,000 and on their own social media post, Sefton Council have talked about the draft report being available in about a month’s time. This should mean we have the final report well before the Local Elections in May and, hopefully, before the next Council meeting in April.
However, we have seen in the past that, on occasion, Sefton Council does seem to wait to announce bad news until after the Local Elections. We saw this when Ofsted inspected Children’s Services in February 2022, but the report rating the services as inadequate was only published after the elections in May 2022.
The new Leader of the Council has committed to being open and transparent, something that I think all councillors welcome. There has been a culture of secrecy under the last administration with a large number of serious decisions being taken without important financial information being made available to all councillors.
So, I hope we get a commitment from Sefton Council that they will ensure, as the paying customer, that the final civil engineering report will be made publicly available before the Local Elections take place. If we are paying £400,000 for a report, I would like to think there would clauses in the contract ensuring it is concluded within a certain timeframe.
The public, who are paying for this report, have a right to know what’s in it as soon as it’s available.”
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Demolition is favourite. Sefton Council cannot repair and make it profitable.
They don't have the business acumen to do so. Look at Victoria Park and
Flower Show it makes money. The market hall lost £106,000 in the first
2 years running costs. A private company, the banks would have pulled the plug.
The council,? It's not their money.
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Originally Posted by ausard2
Demolition is favourite. Sefton Council cannot repair and make it profitable.
They don't have the business acumen to do so. Look at Victoria Park and
Flower Show it makes money. The market hall lost £106,000 in the first
2 years running costs. A private company, the banks would have pulled the plug.
The council,? It's not their money.
You've more chance of seeing the Loch Ness monster than seeing that report, especially if it states the pier can be repaired
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Nice pic...makes a change from standing in the middle of a bike-lane, looking like one of Lewis's!
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Originally Posted by ausard2
Demolition is favourite. Sefton Council cannot repair and make it profitable.
They don't have the business acumen to do so. Look at Victoria Park and
Flower Show it makes money. The market hall lost £106,000 in the first
2 years running costs. A private company, the banks would have pulled the plug.
The council,? It's not their money.
The report is about the condition of the pier and what repairs are required, so everyone already knows it can be repaired. It is only when quotes for the works are received that it can be decided whether it is viable to repair, it like every other will never make money.
The Flower Show lost money because all the costs of maintaining the surrounding areas - Rotten Row, Princes Park and Kings Gardens were lumped together with Victoria Park.
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One plank in front of others.
What good will it DO to see the report if there is no money to repair the pier.
Sefton Council has been ripped off every year by the Consevative government so that youth clubs, libraries and public toilets have already closed through lack of money.
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£400,000 how on earth did we get shafted so much for a condition survey.
The plot has well and truly been lost.
An big office block is £5,000-10,000 plus vat.
Times it by ten and a lot of money has been lets say oddly allocated.
Its like the wooden decking values seemingly very elastic where it suits.
I suppose a Journalist could ask Blackpool Pier Company Ltd how much they pay for a survey.
Last edited by local; 09/03/2024 at 04:49 PM.
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Originally Posted by Nash
One plank in front of others.
You're right there Nash, have you seen how many Labour Councillors we've got...:)
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