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A year ago, Bristol's mayor asked Homes England to spend £15m of taxpayers' money to buy land to build homes on.
They did
Now he's decided the land should be a nature reserve
Even one of the beneficiaries of the deal said it was 'a colossal waste of money' https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/marvin-rees-brislington-meadows-decision-5327244
They did
Now he's decided the land should be a nature reserve
Even one of the beneficiaries of the deal said it was 'a colossal waste of money' https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/marvin-rees-brislington-meadows-decision-5327244
If the Mayor had changed his mind about Brislington Meadows at any point up to April 2020, the British taxpayer would now be £15m better off, because Homes England would've stopped before spending that money.
Another aspect to this is that Bristol City Council persuaded Homes England to buy land from the council itself, land that the mayor is now saying Homes England won't be able to develop
Full details of this multi-million pound deal are here https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/marvin-rees-brislington-meadows-decision-5327244
Full details of this multi-million pound deal are here https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/marvin-rees-brislington-meadows-decision-5327244
But I guess you could say that is certainly one way of getting much-needed millions out of central government and into local government, eh...
The full saga of Brislington Meadows since 2016 and since Friday is explained in this thread here https://twitter.com/TristanCorkPost/status/1383118954848215041?s=20
