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Cornwall’s sheltered housing scheme: council scrutiny committees “might as well pack up and go home”

Cornwall’s sheltered housing scheme: council scrutiny committees “might as well pack up and go home”

Posted By theboss on 2nd August 2020

By Graham Smith Cornwall Council’s refusal to reconsider its planned £150 million 30-year contract for the outsourced provision of sheltered housing appears to have been based on the opinion that…

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