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Those relocation numbers STILL don’t add up (bigly) EDDC!

25 March 2015 extraordinary Meeting regarding Relocation:

‘Councillor Moulding emphasised the cost savings that would be achieved and highlighted key figures:

• The Knowle Site offer price agreed is £7-8m • Exmouth Town Hall modernisation will cost in the region of £1m • New Offices at Honiton will cost in the region of £7m • The Council will secure relocation in total for under £10m’

So it’s a £669,000 increase, not £408,000.

A 69% increase in costs in less than two years, without a brick being laid!

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EDDC progress: move from an old building – to an old building!

EDDC moves from Knowle because it is an old building (although most of it is modern and big enough to meet all their accommodation needs) and moves to Exmouth Town Hall – an old building – all of it old.

And the reason given why the costs are rising?

Exmouth Town Hall is … an old building.

Which begs questions:

A. Did EDDC expect costs to be higher than they estimated when making their calculations to move?

or

B. Did EDDC expect costs not to rise when they made their calculations to move?

and

which of these two scenarios is the worst one!

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What goes around comes around …. in EDDC la-la land

One of the reasons given for increased costs at Exmouth Town Hall – finding asbestos in the building.

One reason given for moving from Knowle – you guessed it – asbestos in the building.

Yes, Minister!

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The “Golden Triangle LEP”

Some suggestions already made for our newest LEP:

Dairy farming to cease forthwith and be replaced by commercial poppy growing – this will increase the value of agricultural land, slow housing development and be better for the environment.

Dartmouth to be twinned with the Mekong Delta, Exeter to be twinned with Bangkok, Plymouth with Chiang Rai.

All remaining NHS community hospitals to be turned into drug rehabilitation centres.

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Who counts the pennies at EDDC?

£1.6 million (minimum) overspend on Queen’s Drive, Exmouth
£400,000 (minimum) underestimate on Exmouth Town Hall refurbishment
£300,000 (minimum) not collected in Section 106 payments

£2 million … and still a quarter of the financial year to go.

Hello, KPMG, hello …..