Slough Council looks to dim streetlights to cut energy costs
A CASH-STRAPPED council has not ruled out an increase in anti-social behaviour as it considers dimming streetlights in a bid to save £25,000.
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A CASH-STRAPPED council has not ruled out an increase in anti-social behaviour as it considers dimming streetlights in a bid to save £25,000.
This six-storey building that cost the people of Slough at least £40million currently sits largely empty, with its entire top floor vacant and cardboard boxes and rubbish filling meeting rooms.
The authority will likely move out of its HQ as a result of its £760m debt, a councillor says.
Labour-led Slough Borough Council bought the large array of indoor plants for its £41million Observatory House headquarters when it moved in 2019. It spent £28,000 on them but they are now "dying" because of a £760m borrowing debt which forced them to terminate a contract for watering them, council leader James Swindlehurst said. Mr Swindlehurst
The authority will likely move out of the building as a result of its £760m debt, a councillor says.