Court case begins over Blackburn’s delayed £8.4million bus station

A multi-million pound court case over Blackburn’s delayed and over-budget £8.4million new bus station started in earnest yesterday .

In June 2015 the council sacked Thomas Barnes and Sons Ltd in what the then council regeneration boss and now leader Cllr Phil Riley described as ‘decisive action’. The firm alleges breach of a contract between the two parties was signed on November 4 2014.The council says it believes the claim ‘has no merit’. The new bus station on the former market site in Ainsworth Street in the town centre was then completed by another contractor Eric Wright Ltd.

They called in lawyers to contest the sacking and claimed they had previously ‘expressed our concerns over the bus station’s design’. In November 2015 the company went out of business and was placed in administration leaving the borough council facing an initial £900,000 loss. Today key witnesses on behalf of the collapsed company and its administrators are expected to start giving evidence.* failed to provide instructions required by the claimant;* failed to provide responses to questions asked of it by the claimant;* failed to properly value the works carried out by the claimant under the contract;

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