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Bristol North Baths to finally be finished
The city council is moving to finally complete the controversy-hit Bristol North Baths development.
George Ferguson is expected to sign off £1.5 million to finish the works after developers were kicked off the project late last year.
Chatsoworth Homes were ordered to leave the site after presiding over a succession of delays and eventually going bankrupt.
The city council lent Chatsworth Homes more than £3 million back in 2011 to convert the old baths into a GP surgery, library and flats which were supposed to open in October 2013.
The new budget to be released by the council to finish the works themselves will take the total spend up to almost £5 million.
The council estimates it will raise almost £6 million through the sale of the flats and the sale of land on the current library on Cheltenham Road. The surplus will be added to the council’s budget for future affordable housing.
But dozens of contractors, including builders, decorators, electricians and plumbers, are still owed about £1.5 million, according to an administrator’s report.
The 10 new flats adjacent to the baths have already been snapped up by buyers who have been waiting to move in since 2013.
The city council has not put a date on the completion of the project, although officers suggested late last year that the development could be finished by this summer.
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