By Graham Smith Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are to receive only £14.3 million of Boris Johnson’s £900 million “shovel-ready, build-build-build” project to help the economy recover from Covid-19. …
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Astonishing to learn £14.3 million is the approximately stated construction cost of a single roundabout. Does anyone else marvel at the staggering costs of local authority projects. Time and again such projects cost out at 3 or 4 times what one would expect in the “real world”.