Leader: Deal is worst ever signed

NORTH Somerset Council signed “the worst deal any council has ever signed” when it locked itself into leasing a loss-making car park for 45 years, the council leader has said.

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The council took out a lease on Carlton Street Car Park in Weston-super-Mare in 2012 but it turned out to be so shoddily built that most of it has now had to be closed. Now the council is locked into paying more than £500,000 a year to lease a car park that does not break even - it just breaks. The multi-storey is currently losing North Somerset Council about a quarter of a million pounds a year.