Spent the last few hours closely reading the final report into the Undercliff Enquiry. As a result one thing keeps nagging at me - what is the purpose of the District Auditor ? Surely he should have picked up on the problems with this contract ages ago - something that I questioned at a Cabinet meeting in Ventnor last March and to which the DA seemed particularly twitchy.
I also see that the media have been told that some of the enquiries findings have been referred to the Police. ABOUT TIME, even if it is only part. I suppose we can console ourselves with the fact that we will now have double-handling out of our taxes.
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So, yet more of our taxes are to be thrown down the Undercliff into the sea to follow the millions already down there. And now that the original plans are abandoned we have to start all over again with the Whitwell route. How many more millions are to be spent there, with consultants, appeals and protests?
What's your view Geoff? Should we just abandon any thought of a new/improved route and leave things as they are?
The failures here do indeed seem serious enough to have attracted the police much earlier. You are right to ask about the failure of the district auditor.
Too often it seems the police are reluctant to tangle with politicians when the law is broken.
It's good to see them now investigation the latest Labour donations row.
The Council will probably have to do something about a Whitwell route, though I agree there are many attendant risks.
Talking to Local Estate Agents, housing prices in St Lawence are set to fall by up to 60% if the road is abandoned.
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