Coventry City Council still paying for scrapped incinerator

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Coventry City Council must carry on spending money on the city's scrapped incinerator project until May, the Telegraph has revealed.



Coventry City Council has admitted the scheme has taken too long to wind down but says it will be issuing letters of notice next week to Project Transform, the team that was spearheading the doomed plan to replace the Whitley incinerator.

The Telegraph reported earlier this month that the scheme was scrapped last year but is still costing the council because Project Transform has not yet been disbanded.

Coventry’s deputy council leader George Duggins admitted a month-long staff consultation to end the project was launched too late but said the costs of winding up the scheme will not run into hundreds of thousands.

He told the Telegraph: “I’m not happy that the process wasn’t as brisk as it should have been but there needs to be a wider context to this.

“Under employment law we have to have a one-month consultation period with staff.

“The council decision was made in October but the project wasn’t officially ended until a board meeting on November 25.

“The earliest time we could have closed Project Transform would have been November 26.

"We missed a month because the consultation was started on January 2 but we are not going to give people notice on December 25, are we?”



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