A report which is being discussed on Thursday reveals that the Council has fallen behind with several major investment projects.
It means that funding is being slipped from 19/20 into future financial years.
The biggest embarrassment is the Community Stadium project which is between 8 and 1 year behind schedule depending on when you started counting.
A development for the homeless on James Street has also recently been revealed as lagging 12 months behind its target completion date (although it doesn’t rate a mention in the Council report).
Setting the scene for a major increase in investment (and consequent debt levels), the report makes some strange claims.
Foremost amongst them is a statement that the Centre of Excellence for the Disabled, currently being constructed on Ascot Way, will open for business in May of this year. Really?
We are assured that show homes at Lowfields will also be available in “late summer” while the waterlogged Ashfield football site – located off Tadcaster Road – will have a clubhouse open by September!
Perhaps more understandably, cautious officials now say that the Community Stadium will be opening to the public “during the year”. No more hostages to fortune then!