THE quoted cost of repairs to a swimming pool building which has been closed since last summer has gone up £1.2m after a fresh report commissioned by council chiefs. Redcar and Cleveland Council said a new independent structural inspection of Eston baths showed the cost of repairing and maintaining the facility was £2.97m. Previously another assessment led the council to state essential repairs aimed at getting the building back into a usable condition would cost £1.7m. The inspection by Stockton-based engineering consultancy Billinghurst George & Partners found that “significant deterioration” of the building had taken place over the years and “substantial works” would be necessary to refurbish the pool building.
An extra £1.5 million is set to be added to the council tax support scheme for 2022/23, which is expected to reduce bills for 7,000 eligible households “with most of those seeing their bill reduced to nil”. At the council meeting the leader of the opposition, Green Cllr Jonathan Bartley, reiterated his concerns that the added support would not come into effect until 2022/23 and that the council plans to raise funds through enforcement. Cllr Andy Wilson, cabinet member for finance and performance, previously said there is a precedent for having to go through a long consultation before the extra support is introduced. But he said between now and the outcome of the consultation the council is putting forward funding to “essentially create the same amount of relief for residents as they would receive under the new council tax support scheme”.
Incredible that care workers won t take covid vaccine, says councillor
Cllr Steve Kay spoke out after hearing one in ten care workers refused the jab - even though health chiefs expected the rate to be much higher
08:45, 4 MAR 2021
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A councillor said the rate of covid-19 vaccine refusals among council-employed care workers should be zero after being told it was running at 9%.
Town councillors voted unanimously to condemn the plan at its full when they met this week. Deputy mayor, Alex Kay said it lacked vision and was less of a plan, and more of a housing allocation document. “For a good plan, you need to lay out a vision,” she said. “That was what was done for our neighbourhood plan and what we’ll do when we redo our neighbourhood plan will set out a vision of what housing we need, the type of housing and where that needs to be.” Cllr Kay added that as a council they rejected all the sites for housing in the document, including the golf course and Woolley Allotments.
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