How to Blow a Million Quid - The Fishersgate Scandal
Posted in News under Adur | Fishersgate | on May 03 2008
Fishersgate is a very deprived area. But no , this isn’t about the usual depressing statistics of ‘social deprivation’, this is about a tough little community working to improve itself, then being ripped off to the tune of over a £1,000,000 by the Local Authority (Adur) and its agents. And that, dear fellow taxpayers, ratepayers, lottery hopefuls, was our PUBLIC money, but the cost to the community is NO Community Centre, NO Sports Facilities, and the hounding of ordinary good people through the Law Courts .
The story is 10 years long and beyond the attention span of most of us. We’ll get to the story later, but let’s start with the dosh.
£540.000 administered by Adur District Council. £240,000 was from the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA); Scottish Power £90,000 (paid to Adur for reasons that are not clear..) £110,000 from Adur District Council; £100,000 from English Partnerships, the Government’s national Regeneration Agency. Added to that little heap, there’s Sport England with £232,000 grandly dispensed with scarcely a care, or, check, in the world. Then, with a few crumbs from the Big Lottery, it comes to £848,000!
Do you smell fish? Umm, that’s the smell from £140,000 of legal fees…
You see, it’s easy: £0 to a Million in a blink, before you can say delusional builder, maladministration, incompetence, and bad faith.