HOME   ARCHIVE   GALLERY   SHOP   ABOUT US      
 

 
OVER £250,000 SPENT BY SALFORD CITY COUNCIL ON REGENERATION CONSULTANTS
 

Star date: 25th July 2019

HUGE SPEND ON SWINTON MASTERPLAN, THE CRESCENT ETC

Cash strapped Salford City Council is spending over £277,000 on a variety of outside consultants, ranging from £142,000 on the secret Swinton Transformation Masterplan, to £75,000 on 'Strategic Economic Development'.

Virtually none of this money is subject to much scrutiny or transparency, and it's almost impossible to work out what it's all for.

Full details here...

Salford City Council's spending on outside consultants and 'experts' is mushrooming as secretive plans to 'regenerate' the city (again) get mulled behind closed doors.

The latest publication of contracts entered into by the Council reveals that Ekosgen, which provides 'research and consultancy support', is being paid £75,000 until December for 'Strategic Economic Development' to 'Support Growth in Salford', whatever that means.

Ekosgen was also handed £7,056 last year for 'Economic Input' for the Salford City Council and University of Salford joint masterplan for the Crescent, while CBRF was paid £45,000 for the 'Preparation of cultural destination investment and management strategy for the Crescent/Chapel Street Corridor'.

The 'cultural destination' strategy was so good that ace gallery, Caustic Coastal, which provided Council-given space for emerging artists in the city, is due to close this Saturday!

Meanwhile, John Lormier of JLO Innovation Ltd, a former Capital Programme Officer at Manchester City Council, trousered £8,379 for 'Consultancy advice related to procurement of a strategic partners'. (sic)

Yep, everyone's getting a cut out of Salford's 'regeneration' plans...

And then there's the secretive Swinton Transformation Masterplan, which is having money shoved at it left, right and centre...except no-one knows what the hell it is yet!

Salford Council has already paid Urban Vision £200,000* to create the plan, and is handing Cheetham and Mortimer property consultants a further £50,000; plus £92,000 to Local Partnerships LLP, a joint venture between the Government and the Local Government Association, for five months work 'To enable the completion of a Business Case for Swinton Town Centre'...

That's £342,000 on the enigmatic Swinton plan...and counting...

Altogether, excluding the Urban Vision handout, it's £277,435 on consultants, that we know about. It does make one wonder what all the highly paid officers at Salford Council are actually 'highly paid' to do...
 

* For more background on the Swinton Masterplan - or lack of it - see previous Salford Star article - click here

Nigel wrote
at 05:14:28 on 30 July 2019
Rossi, even the long term unemployed can find a job, I did. Thats why its called Job Seekers Allowance.
?
Kev wrote
at 05:44:10 on 28 July 2019
Does Mr Rossi really expect anyone to have any sympathy for him when he seems quite content to spend his whole life sat on his backside moaning about his lot in life? It's the likes of him that give Salford the reputation it's never going to escape from.
?
Lucie F wrote
at 05:43:09 on 28 July 2019
Yet citizens keep re-electing Labour? WHY? I see posts regularly that show disdain for Labour but they still get voted in over and over. Swinton is a plum for Salford - stolen from Lancashire in 1970s to bring a shine on the squalor endemic across the city. Yet Labour has continued to allow Swinton Centre to dissolve into disrepair. Abandoning The Lancastrian Hall and Peel Museum for 'flagship' Lowry Centre. Lancastrian is now a disaster waiting to happen
?
Realist wrote
at 20:03:49 on 26 July 2019
Boo hoo Rossi, I’m sure Boris will throw you some of his scraps when he comes to visit
?
ROSSI wrote
at 09:22:40 on 26 July 2019
It's balloons like this, they're the reason why the United Kingdom is always going to have a Conservative Government, and an increasingly right wing one to boot. This is bad for people like me. The long termed unemployed, living a subsistence life on JSA ... facing homelessness and a couple of years of Randy Crawford like Street Life (Not). Rooting through bins, shoplifting and living like feral dogs. And this is all down to the Balloons of the Labour Party. Be it Salford Labour, or Labour on a national level. These balloons have failed the Working Class. They've made themselves so unelectable that the UK is doomed to a perpetual Far Right Government. Which in turn means ideological cuts to welfare and cuts to councils. They couldn't do this if Labour hadn't have made themselves so unelectable. The Balloons of Labour have doomed me and several million other citizens to increasing squalor, misery and potentially acts of survival criminality. Thank you Labour, you bunch of useless and impotent balloons. I'm going now. I'm going off to listen to Bruce Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town album, followed by The Ghost of Tom Joad. Followed by an attempt to get to sleep on a hot and sticky night in a city which is run ineptly by a feckless but unfecund bunch of absolute balloons. Salford Labour ...
?
Mikey b wrote
at 09:21:44 on 26 July 2019
Salford city council are nothing but rougues they sell every piece of land going to private sector wont spend any money on social housing just want money money money nothing but money grabbers
?
Please enter your comment below:
 
 
 
Forever manchester
Salford Star
advertisement
 
Contact us
e-mail: info@salfordstar.com
phone: 07957 982960
Facebook       Twitter
 
 
Recent comments
article: PAUL HOUGHTON BRINGING MOSAICS AND TAPE ART TO SALFORD
Hi Paul I hope you are well, please can you tell me how much it would be to have the George Best Mosaic made? Indeed if you are st... [more]
article: CUSSONS SOAP AND KERSAL MOOR SALFORD – A VERY CLEAN STORY
I am Marjorie Goodwin's grandson. I still have that battered tobacco tin. I don't know what happened to the silver one! ... [more]
article: SALFORD PRECINCT SHOPPERS STUNG BY PARKING `RACKET’
I parked here with a disability badge and my back tyre was slightly over line as I suffer with coordination and it says if I appea... [more]
article: SALFORD LOST STREETS
4 North Johnson Street, Salford. My Great Grandfather was the son of Household James Rowlands 68. x2. His wife Frances Rowlands... [more]
article: John Cooper Clarke On Life In Higher Broughton.
lived for many years as a kid in Murray st. Hilda who was mum to John would visit my grandmother and would tell us about what john... [more]
 
 
 
 
 
Days
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
  

THE SALFORD STAR COUNTDOWN TO NEXT REFERENDUM ON GETTING RID OF THE MAYORAL SYSTEM IN SALFORD:
26TH JANUARY 2022
 
 

Donate

Help the Salford Star...

all donations welcome

 
 

More articles...

SALFORD STAR CLOSES AFTER 15 YEARS WITH ATTITUDE AND LOVE XXX

Star date: 17th May 2021

SALFORD STAR – 15 YEARS OF ATTITUDE AND LOVE XXX

The Salford Star closes tonight after 15 years of giving the community a voice, holding power to account and bigging up all the great things that have happened in the city.

Thousands of people in Salford have been involved in one way or another with the Star and we'd like to thank them all. Salford is a very special city and, hopefully, we've given it a very special community publication.

For the final curtain click here... 

SALFORD STAR CLOSURE: HOW SALFORD COUNCIL TRIED TO BLOCK AND DISCREDIT THE STAR

Star date: 17th May 2021

THREATS, LIES, FEAR AND LOATHING IN SALFORD...

Today, the Salford Star shuts down but we write this article as a warning to others who may follow on the pitfalls of founding a genuine publication that aims to give the community a voice and hold public bodies up to account. 

They will try to discredit you, block information and shut you down. Here the Salford Star editor, Stephen Kingston, looks at how democracy perished badly under the Salford mayoral system.

Full details here...

SALFORD HAS 7 NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES AS RESTRICTIONS ARE EASED

Star date: 17th May 2021

A WHIFF OF FREEDOM AS RESTRICTIONS ARE EASED

Salford has 7 new coronavirus cases, down from the previous day's 14, while the seven day rate per 100,000 population now stands at 30.1, down from 30.9. There have been no new virus-related deaths announced by Salford Royal Hospital.

Today sees restrictions eased and the first whiff of freedom in over a year. It's also the final coronavirus bulletin from the Salford Star which is closing. Here we look back over 14 months of the pandemic and the absolute communication failings of Salford City Council and its City Mayor.

Full details here...

SALFORD STAR CLOSURE: HOW SALFORD COUNCIL TRIED TO STOP THE STAR

Star date: 16th May 2021

THEY WILL TRY TO DISCREDIT YOU...TO BLOCK YOU, TO SHUT YOU DOWN

We are almost at the final closure of the Salford Star but we write this article as a warning to others who may follow on the pitfalls of founding a genuine publication that aims to give the community a voice and hold public bodies up to account. 

They will try to discredit you, block information and shut you down. In South America they just blow up the offices of journalists that don't play the game. Here they just financially assassinate you...

Full details here...

SALFORD STAR CLOSURE – GUY GRIFFITHS ON THE HUMAN COST OF PATHFINDER DEMOLITIONS

Star date: 16th May 2021

THE HUMAN COST OF REGENERATION

The Griffiths brothers of Higher Broughton are kind of infamous as the only people to be forcefully evicted from their house as part of the Pathfinder 'housing market renewal' project during the first decade of the 21st Century.

Here, Guy Griffiths, now living in 'sunny' north Wales and one of the main inspirations for the Salford Star's creation, writes the second part his own personal view of the Government project that devastated communities throughout Central Salford.

Full details here...

 


written and produced by Salfordians for Salfordians
with attitude and love xxx