Labours’ plans not to build the new civic office at Southwater mean that 300 workers will be displaced by council workers at a cost of £500,000 to the tax payer in lost rent.
Companies who lease offices from the council will be forced to relocate. Councillor Kuldip Sahota does not deny this and says that the cost has been ‘budgeted in’. He added that it has not yet been decided how the Borough staff are going to be distributed around the Borough.