Author: Rachael Brooks
All Move For Council Staff
Wednesday, 28th July, 2010 at 6:25 pm, Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight Council, Newport, News, Ryde
It’s all move at the Isle of Wight council, as staff shift around various offices and premises.
Staff working in community service finances, payments services, recruitment, training, and pensions will no longer be travelling to Newport each day, but to the former Westridge Leisure Centre in Ryde instead.
Their offices won’t remain empty though, they’ll be filled with staff from other offices in buildings that the council is selling or terminating leases on.
IW Council director of resources Dave Burbage, said: “The council’s aim under transformation is to dramatically reduce the number of buildings from which it operates and to introduce new ways of working.
“This is a significant step in that approach. The teams that are co-locating at Westridge provide support services to the rest of the council, and by joining together can provide this support in a more efficient way.”
Image: Betsy Fletcher under CC BY 2.0
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Why does the expression rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic spring to mind?
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Damn – you beat me to it! :-)
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Foolish boys!
The Titanic did not have taxpayers money to keep it floating.
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Dave Burbage has got the impressive speak factor: “transformation” and “co-locating”.
I am very suspicious of “transformation”…when did that start ?
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seems sensible to me. theyre using westridge rather than letting it go empty, and other people can use the newport offices. The offices that do go empty can be sold off.
Of course, given that there are office buildings going empty all over the island, I dont think the council will find their old office space easy to get rid of.
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They don’t have a very good record when it comes to moving. I recall the incredible cost of Enterprise House. A building that still costs us large sums each year.
I think Dave Burbage would also say the council is ‘right sizing’ itself. The dire IW authority has been transforming for a few years – it’s just that no-one likes what they transformed themselves into.
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I’m just glad to see that with all these cuts the Department of Reorganisation is alive and well. If you restructure often enough it always ensures there is work for someone…
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I first heard of this a year ago, I thought from VB but perhaps I was still reading the odd CP. I assume they have been sorting out the asbestos problems in the meantime.
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Thats why the removal vans were outside County Hall last week then … had wondered what what going on.
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Shame, I thought Pugh and his boss Brown were moving out.
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We moved offices last week where I work. The contracted out IT company charged £200 per seat for moving computers! That is disconnecting (not the physical moving, that costs extra) & then reconnecting the computers.
I’m sure the council wouldn’t waste tax payers money so easily though hey!
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Was not the Westridge Leisure Centre negotiated as a “planning gain” when Tescos set up years ago. Well that was a waste then.
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