Mochdre Commerce Park A local authority’s “shaming catalogue of errors” led to a contract that never should have been signed, for a building that was never fit for purpose. The mistakes surrounding Conwy county council’s £3.6m white elephant project to site an HGV depot at Mochdre Commerce Park can now made be public. It’s a sorry tale highlighting a lack of leadership, policies ignored or misunderstood and no one being held to account for organisational failings which permeated the authority’s project management. Conwy county council’s CEO Iwan Davies called the episode “highly regrettable” at a virtual governance and audit scrutiny meeting on Monday, as he outlined the measures he hopes will prevent anything like this happening again.
The HGV depot that can t house trucks and the catalogue of errors costing taxpayers millions
Conwy Council s not fit for purpose Mochdre base is being used as a PPE store and is on standby as a temporary morgue
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Units at Mochdre Commerce Park (Image: Copyright Unknown)
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Inside the converted Venue Cymru exhibition hall where the vaccinations are taking place as the facility has been transformed into Ysbyty Enfys (Image: Hadyn Iball - North Wales Live)
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