{"id":1087,"date":"2024-05-04T15:02:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T15:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangorcitylife.uk\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2024-05-04T15:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T15:02:27","slug":"expensive-public-realm-work-undermined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangorcitylife.uk\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"Expensive public realm work undermined"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bangorcitylife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_20240502_192409-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1088\" style=\"width:848px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bangorcitylife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_20240502_192409-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bangorcitylife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_20240502_192409-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bangorcitylife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_20240502_192409-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bangorcitylife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_20240502_192409-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bangorcitylife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_20240502_192409-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Minister at the time Nelson McCausland indicated a major public realm scheme for Bangor and Holywood.\u00a0 \u201cThose works will address all aspects of street design, including paving, kerbstones, street furniture, lighting and planting.\u00a0 The total value of the works is estimated to be \u00a310 million\u201d<br>With that in mind it seems incredible that the current local politicians appear content to permit substandard reinstatement by contractors.<br>The scheme will, I presume, be still a burden on our grandchildren through the repayments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Public Realm not being reinstated as original works.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-lVXxJ7eVNk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister at the time Nelson McCausland indicated a major public realm scheme for Bangor and Holywood.\u00a0 \u201cThose works will address all aspects of street design, including paving, kerbstones, street furniture, lighting and planting.\u00a0 The total value of the works is estimated to be \u00a310 million\u201dWith that in mind it seems incredible that the current local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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