A long-awaited independent review is underway into the controversial Bournemouth Development Company, ten years after it was set up. BDC was established in 2011 as 50/50 partnership between the former Bournemouth Borough Council and private developer Morgan Sindall. But although it has delivered a number of flats schemes on town centre car parks, BDC has been bedevilled by criticism of a lack of transparency, the slow rate of progress, conflicts of interests and serious questions over whether it has been a good deal for taxpayers. There are growing concerns inside the council that BDC is not fit for purpose. Now a value for money review has started after the whole BDC issue was raised by independent councillor Steve Bartlett, chairman of BCP Council s overview and scrutiny committee.
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