ILMINSTER NEWS: Mayor would want gold-plated toilets if £300k overspend was true

THE Mayor of Ilminster has said she would have expected to find “gold-plated loos” at the Archie Gooch Pavilion if wild reports of a £300,000 overspend on the project were to be believed.

The pavilion at Britten’s Field officially opened last year and it has become a greatly used community asset rather than just solely by Ilminster Town Football Club which has it as its headquarters.

But there is still some work to be finished at the pavilion and these works have remained in the pipeline – a situation not helped by the fact that the original contractors for the project went into administration.

The £600,000 scheme – which received funding from various sources – did go over-budget by £22,400 and Ilminster Town Council has put aside £10,000 to help with completing a “snagging” list.

But that is loose change in comparison to some myths doing the rounds in Ilminster where people have suggested the project overspent by a whopping £300,000.

The Mayor, Cllr Val Keitch, speaking at Ilminster Town Council on Tuesday (August 15, 2017), said: “I would expect gold-plated loos for that sort of money.”

It was pointed out that some outstanding grant funding for the project would be paid once jobs on the “snagging” list had been completed.

Ilminster Town Council played a leading role in the pavilion project which is now managed by Ilminster Sports Club Ltd.

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