IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features Building on the departure of the Parliament restoration sponsor body lead.
… restoring the Palace of Westminster could take up to 76 years and cost nearly £50bn…
Jordan Marshall writes in Building:
…Sarah Johnson, who was named chief executive of the sponsor body for Houses of Parliament Restoration and Renewal in 2019, said she had made the decision ‘following decisions earlier this year by the House Commissions about the future of the R&R Programme’….
She said: ‘It is the right time for me to move on. In a few days I will hand the baton over to Patsy Richards who I know will do a brilliant job….’
Richards is currently director of workplace transformation in the House of Commons….
The Parliament project has been in limbo since a study published in February found that restoring the Palace of Westminster could take up to 76 years and cost nearly £50bn if MPs do not move out during the works….
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