[andrewb]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

Fair points, but without getting into the whole tedious 'budgets of the past' debate, someone in control at HBC should have stood up and had the balls to say that it was a waste of money.

I don't know the particular ins and outs of this incident but we're talking about over half a million pounds of our money being approved for a project that was obviously wildly overpriced to start with.

If you want to get political about it, the Tories have had control in Hyndburn for some time so it would have been they who had the deciding vote.

£591,000. That figure is probably somewhere near to what you will earn (after tax) in the rest of your working life, Andrew.

You're probably right. As for a vote, they weren't spending council money, I don't know if one took place. One of the councillors might know.