Following the Council’s Economic Development & Infrastructure meeting today, where it was learned that Moray Council failed to spend £140,000 of insurance money after the Grant Lodge fire, Labour Councillor Barry Jarvis said:

“This is a shocking revelation which shows the Council in a quite frankly terrible light with regards to it’s actions over Grant Lodge. Campaigners have long asked where this money has went and now they know the answer, that it was simply never spent. To think that it has taken as long as it has to simply get this information into the public domain says everything about the way that Grant Lodge has been treated by successive Council administrations.

 

Although the money would not have totally restored the building it would have brought it to the position it was at prior to the fire. It is doubtful that given the passage of time this would even come close to covering that. The people of Elgin have been let down and given the lack of any current interest in the building appear to have lost a precious gift with a great historical and cultural significance to many across the city.”