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Originally Posted by Neil
That just shows how much or our monet the Council waste. £4000 for a shower fitted. Maybe its time they stopped using the contractors that charge £4000 and find some that will do it for a fraction of that and to the same standard.
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Well the thing is that the last Labour council dispenced with the Direct Works Department, meaning that all contracts had to be outside tenders, even though Hyndburn Homes is no longer under the HBC umbrella, if there was still a works department they would have been able to tender for these jobs with HH and keep the money within the council for the benefit of the Council Tax Payer. I said at the time that they could be taken for a ride as far as pricing goes and whats more I actually think that Graham Jones wasn't very happy with the scrapping the works department, I seem to remember him saying as much in an earlier post