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Whoops there goes our bus shelter in Devizes

10:25am Friday 29th January 2010


Butter fingered glaziers are to blame for the delay in completing the erection of the bus shelter in Devizes Market Place.

The original shelter, erected by the town council at a cost of £8,000, blew down during gales a year ago. When the council approached its insurers they found it was only insured for impact damage and they had to find the replacement cost from their own budgets.

Finally last week the shelter was erected but the contractors have left it incomplete and still open to the elements.

Deputy town clerk Simon Fisher explained that the contractors dropped one pane of glass while installing it and a new one has to be made, which will take at least a week.

Mr Fisher said: "We have been in robust conversation with the company."


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Local Bloke, Calne says...
11:51am Fri 29 Jan 10

How do you have a 'robust conversation' ?

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Don Jones, Devizes says...
2:02pm Fri 29 Jan 10

SF: "Like your kneecaps, do you? Anyway, get that sorted pronto, you Wallies, or you ain't getting a penny out of us." I guess.

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Davie B, Down under the Plain says...
9:03am Mon 1 Feb 10

A rather more serious point is why the council is paying for such a useless policy in the first place and failed to realise its limitations until they claimed. If someone ever did "impact" the shelter surely the odds are the vehicle (or impactee's) insurers would pay, just like a garden fence its far more likely to be damaged by the elements than a vehicle. Given this case I think the council needs to review other insurance policies for such wasteful nonsense, but then again I suppose its its not their money is it?

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Davie B, Down under the Plain says...
9:03am Mon 1 Feb 10

A rather more serious point is why the council is paying for such a useless policy in the first place and failed to realise its limitations until they claimed. If someone ever did "impact" the shelter surely the odds are the vehicle (or impactee's) insurers would pay, just like a garden fence its far more likely to be damaged by the elements than a vehicle. Given this case I think the council needs to review other insurance policies for such wasteful nonsense, but then again I suppose its it's not their money is it?

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Davie B, Down under the Plain says...
12:53pm Mon 1 Feb 10

.....is there an echo in here!

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Rowdey, Rowde says...
1:45pm Mon 1 Feb 10

Surely the most likely impact would be repeated ones from the feet of yobs in the middle of the night. Is it boot proof?

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