….So said Councillor Halse, referring to his opposition to the Knowle relocation project, at tonight’s stormy Overview and Scrutiny Committee meeting. He argued that the economic climate had changed so radically since the Council office move had first been mooted, that relocation no longer made sense. He told the assembled councillors, “We need to make a modern decision” not to have a white elephant in some outpost of the District.

More revealing quotes from the meeting to come later……