http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: council wasting money - Recent Topics en Thu, 21 May 2026 05:09:11 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1319#post-12202 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:24:24 +0000 kaputnik 12202@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I hope it doesn't break protocol to link to the Telegraph, but this <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/7946926/Interactive-map-Council-website-spending.html">interactive map of cooncil spending on websites</a> made interesting lunchtime reading.</p> <p>So - if I am reading the chart correctly - it would seem that this year oor cooncil have spent £237,924 on their websites, including £102,800 on redesign costs alone = 50p for every resident in the council area. That's by far and away the highest spend in Scotland (for those reporting) and the 3rd highest per-capita behind our smaller neighbours of East and West Lothian.</p> <p>Has anyone here been benefiting from this generous investment? I for one would rather have had my 50 pence invested in something more tangible and worthwhile (after all, the website is still a load of un-navigable &lt;insert expletive here&gt;).</p> <p>Now I can see why as of this morning they've desperately started trying to collect council tax from 4 years ago that I didn't pay when I was a student (because I was a student) - a year after I finally thought it had all been put to bed and sorted by making a trip into cooncil chambers armed with degree certificates and letters from the university. </p>