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Article: What a mess
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- October 2, 2009
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DETAILS of the mismanagement of a North-East town centre
redevelopment - which left taxpayers facing a [pounds]780,000 bill
for a gas pipe blunder - are revealed today.
The Pedestrian Heart scheme, in Darlington, ran into costly
delays in January 2006, when contractors hit a 100-year-old cast
iron gas main, buried in a shallower trench than plans had
indicated.
The entire pipeline was rerouted, adding [pounds]780,000 to the
cost, disrupting the town centre and delaying the scheme by four
months.
Councillors commissioned Ward Hadaway solicitors to review the
project and advise the authority on whether or not legal action
could be taken against either contractor to recoup any of the money.
The ...