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Published: Wednesday, 30th July, 2008 10:30

Council feels the crunch as £25m axe falls

By Kevin Dyson

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THE CREDIT crunch bit hard in Norh Ayrshire this week as it emerged council chiefs have been forced to scrap half of their building programme.

The "rephasing" of £25m worth of capital plans includes postponing £1m of funding for the renovation of Irvine's Town House, £6.334m for the devlopment of Montgomerie Park, the £200,000 extension of Knadgerhill Cemetery and £1.3m for regeneration projects across the area.

Almost £350, 000 of improvements to community centres will also be postponed.

NAC Finance Director Alasdair Herbert said that the housing slump led to the council making the decision not sell surplus land - which makes up part of its income - on the cheap.

Chief Executive Ian Snodgrass added that none of the projects had been removed from the budget.

For all the details see this week's Times

edneilly

Oct 9 08 19:05

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If this credit crunch has hit North Ayrshire Council hard financialy, and it has had to pospone some regeneration projects.

How will Finance Director and the Chief Executive propose to recover from this latest disaster and collaps of the Icelandic Banking system, where North Ayrshire Council have just lost £15000000.00p, stashed between two bank accounts?

Who will eventually have to pay for this mistake?

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