Letter: Harrogate council office ‘sell off’ is wrong

Harrogate Council Offices on Crescent Gardens.(1401045c)

So, our council is now firmly committed to press ahead with its vanity project: to sell off our prestigious Crescent Gardens ‘Town Hall’, as well as four other council sites, and to house most of the council employees in an expensive, new-build, iconic office block at Knapping Mount, on a site previously identified for housing.

The justification is that the staff need better accommodation and that the overall scheme could, after seven and half years, start to save the council taxpayer a million pounds a year. I wonder!

The Conservative administration claim the public were consulted two - three years ago. Do you remember the exercise?