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The new London mayor, Sadiq Khan is investigating London’s planned £175m garden bridge
United Kingdom Architecture News - May 16, 2016 - 16:30 4384 views
[....] Khan, having completed his first week in office, has already begun scrutinising Boris Johnson’s decisions relating to the controversial project, to which £60m of public money has been allocated in circumstances previously criticised by parliamentary spending officials as unorthodox. An official report concluded that the process to select a designer for the bridge was unfair and that the office of the previous mayor was “less than honest” about his role in the process.
A spokesman for Khan said: ''He is only in his first days in the role but he is looking in more detail at some of the issues raised about the procurement''...... Continue Reading
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