By Dave Rogers 2021-04-27T06:00:00+01:00
Scheme originally budgeted at £29m will now cost close to £89m
The revamp the of tower containing Big Ben has gone up by another £9m with the scheme now officially due to be completed by next summer.
The £79.7m restoration of the grade I-listed Elizabeth Tower, which was designed by Purcell, was due to be finished later this year but the covid-19 pandemic has pushed the finishing date into the second quarter of next year, with the cost of dealing with covid sending the final bill up by 11% to close to £89m.
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By Dave Rogers2021-04-26T15:00:00+01:00
Scheme, which had originally been budgeted at £29m, will now cost close to £89m
Sir Robert McAlpine’s job to revamp the tower containing Big Ben has gone up by another £9m with the scheme now officially due to be completed by next summer.
The £79.7m restoration of the grade I-listed Elizabeth Tower was due to be finished later this year but the covid-19 pandemic has pushed the finishing date into the second quarter of next year, with the cost of dealing with covid sending the final bill up by 11% to close to £89m.
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