The cost of the major repairs needed for the Houses of Parliament is rising by up to £420 million per year due to ongoing delays in starting work on it.
They should move out, turn it into a museum and set up a fit for purpose modern assembly building. Possibly somewhere like Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester.
If they turned it into a museum, they’d still have to maintain it as well as the new building in Slough that they’d move into. Also our prestige would lower, state opening of parliament might not be able to happen and thus another portion of tourist income down the drain also. I think there’s more of an appeal to visiting it anyway as it’s a functional building.
The money for a new permanent building would probably come close to £420 million anyway. The Scottish Parliament alone cost £414 million back in 2004
And that building doesn’t have much of a tourism draw… Except maybe the nice pools
They should move out, turn it into a museum and set up a fit for purpose modern assembly building. Possibly somewhere like Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester.
If they turned it into a museum, they’d still have to maintain it as well as the new building in Slough that they’d move into. Also our prestige would lower, state opening of parliament might not be able to happen and thus another portion of tourist income down the drain also. I think there’s more of an appeal to visiting it anyway as it’s a functional building.
The money for a new permanent building would probably come close to £420 million anyway. The Scottish Parliament alone cost £414 million back in 2004
And that building doesn’t have much of a tourism draw… Except maybe the nice pools
Slough.