The following headlines and story relating to the same council, , from only a few years ago, may have some bearing on our own District Council’s office relocation extravaganza.
£9.9m bill to equip Rotherham Council’s new offices
Published date: 26 August 2011 | Published by: Gareth Dennison
Bill: Rotherham Council’s new offices.
ROTHERHAM Borough Council’s multi-million pound new offices will cost £9.9 million to furnish.
The £3 million-a-year rent paid to regeneration group Evans for Riverside House does not include kitting out the buildings.
The first staff will begin moving in before Christmas and the authority insists the total cost is less than staying put in its ageing existing buildings.
East Devon Watch 
How much has EDDC spent so far in this moving project that keeps chopping changing and getting nowhere? Can anyone tell me approximately?
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At least £705,000 they admit to but they don’t cost officer time so it is really in the millions
– some of that, of course, on the abortive Skypark move.
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And what about the high salary of the project manager from Davis Langdon “embedded” in the Council? And what about legal expenses challenging the Information Commissioner and a residents’ Town Green application – and soon a legal challenge to public righhts of way – have these been factored in?
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