Brighton and Hove Bankruptcy

[GibbosEmpire]

Brighton and Hove council are in the final stages of going bankrupt unless they recover £8 mill in the next 3 months, which I don't think will come as a surprise considering taxpayers spanked £14 mill on the new hospital helipad 4 years ago, which doesn't work and was only tested once. They also spanked £36 mill on a loan towards the i360 and the company that owns the i360 owes Brighton and Hove council well over £50 mill, which themselves have just gone into bankruptcy and I doubt theyll see a penny of that back. About 2 months ago the council had the audacity in a questionnaire to ask Brighton and Hoves taxpayers where should we cut £30 mill in funding? Absolute disastrous.

 

[red_harrington]

How does a helipad cost £20 mil?

I could lay a concrete circle in a weekend for £500

 

[GibbosEmpire]

How does a helipad cost £20 mil?

I could lay a concrete circle in a weekend for £500

Sorry was £14 mill, always thought it was 20.

Brighton hospital helipad opening delayed until 2025

The £14m platform at the Royal Sussex County Hospital was originally meant to open in June 2019.

www.google.com

 

[FlapJacks]

A new hospital helipad might have been a good idea, but the i360 was always a terrible idea.

 

[fmttmadmin]

A new hospital helipad might have been a good idea, but the i360 was always a terrible idea.

And I understand was opposed by so many in Brighton - but pushed by those that didn't listen and are now nowhere to be seen.

 

[GibbosEmpire]

And I understand was opposed by so many in Brighton - but pushed by those that didn't listen and are now nowhere to be seen.

Not to mention they were pushed to work the last remaining days when they knew it was closing, and they didn't get paid for those days, about 100 staff haven't been paid.

 

[Billy Horner]

Brighton and Hove council are in the final stages of going bankrupt unless they recover £8 mill in the next 3 months, which I don't think will come as a surprise considering taxpayers spanked £14 mill on the new hospital helipad 4 years ago, which doesn't work and was only tested once. They also spanked £36 mill on a loan towards the i360 and the company that owns the i360 owes Brighton and Hove council well over £50 mill, which themselves have just gone into bankruptcy and I doubt theyll see a penny of that back. About 2 months ago the council had the audacity in a questionnaire to ask Brighton and Hoves taxpayers where should we cut £30 mill in funding? Absolute disastrous.

I don’t think you can blame the council for a bad helipad investment by the local NHS Trust.

 

[GibbosEmpire]

I don’t think you can blame the council for a bad helipad investment by the local NHS Trust.

I can partly if it's tax payers money and they've loaned the trust money

 

[Hicktonpen10]

Governments and Councils of all persuasions waste money at astronomical levels.

 

[TheLodger]

It wasn't that long ago when a certain Andy Preston spent close to £1m on plans to put 2 large towers in Boro, one with a helipad on it, you know, so we had somewhere we could all park our copters when we went shopping, the other tower had a pingpong table on it's roof :ROFLMAO:
Needless to say it didn't happen and the plans were reverted back to Dave Budd's original ideas, it still cost the council the close to a £mil on the plans.

He also spent a small fortune of the councils cash on the old Capt. Cook Pub, which still stands empty.
Oh and don't even mention three quarters of a million on buying the falling down Crown building- that for some reason "didn't need a survey"

Still, he'll tell you, he made his millions property developing.