Tenbury WHUB - 20K under budget

The banner headline story in the Tenbury Wells Advertiser on 19th April read "Information hub open - 20k under budget.

The article went on to inform that the £260,000 project was delivered £20,000 under budget.

What it didn't say was that large parts of the project were scrapped because the project was running over budget! If all the planned work had been done then the project would have caused a massive overspend.

So what did the money actually buy?

* A couple of very small meeting rooms
* A lift
* The moving of a partition wall
* A reduction in the available library space

Is this best value? Is this really an asset?

Is it any wonder that people have such little regard for their Council.

And it still closes on Wednesday!

An inconvenient time to die (or be born)

For a number of years the WCC Registrars service has allowed the relatives of the recently deceased or the parents of new born children to register the event by appointment at the Pump Rooms in Tenbury Wells.

Since the flood in July 2007 this service has been suspended, so anyone needing to see a Registrar has had to travel to Worcester or Kidderminster.

Now we have a new WHUB in Tenbury surely there is no reason why this service cannot be reintroduced, or is this yet another case of a service being removed from Tenbury to save money.

Is Tenbury behind the times?

Time doesn't so much stand still in Tenbury, but it certainly lags behind. There may be a shiny new WHUB in Teme Street, but the large clock has shown the incorrect time for quite a while.

To ensure accuracy at all times the clock automatically updates using the Atomic time signal from Rugby. With the signal travelling at roughly 186,282 miles per second, the clock should by rights be correct.

I'm told that the clock will correct when it receives a pulse?

How often the clock checks for a pulse depends on the system installed. Usually once a second or once a minute. I doubt very much it is once a week or more!