North Staffordshire Regeneration Partnership
Quote:"Centre giving way, left wing under pressure, situation excellent I shall attack". So a telegram went from the French general Foch during a particularly stressful moment during the Battle of the Marne in 1914 during the First World War.
Influential Stoke-on-Trent business man Mo Chaudry has resigned from the under fire North Staffordshire Regeneration Partnership [NSRP], the body responsible for the regeneration of the city. Mr Chaudry, owner of one of Staffordshire finest leisure facilities Waterworld, has criticised what he describes as a 'quagmire of bureaucracy' that is impeding the work of the board. He criticised the NSRP for having missed opportunities due to slow decision making.
The regeneration of North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent is in crisis today as Newcastle Borough Council and Staffs Moorlands Council withdraw from the North Staffs Regeneration Partnership effectively disbanding the NSRP, and leaving question marks over funding and all of the future projects planned for Stoke-on-Trent and its surrounding areas. This follows months of criticism and bad publicity over financial irregularities involving consultants, and the appointment of a paid, independent cha
Auditors To Monitor NSRP
18 Jan 2010
North Staffordshire Regeneration Partnership are being monitored by auditors KPMG Freedom of Information requests put in by Stoke-on-Trent man Trevor Jones uncovered a report by auditors KPMG that criticised the tendering process that North Staffordshire Regeneration Partnership used to award contracts totalling almost £500,000. In the report KPMG wrote 'Our findings suggest that the process in place pre-January 2009 has lacked transparency and scrutiny and has also failed to demonstrate how val
