{"id":474707,"date":"2026-06-03T20:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/474707\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T20:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:45:09","slug":"bacteria-delays-push-worthing-health-centre-build-cost-to-49m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/474707\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacteria delays push Worthing health centre build cost to \u00a349m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When construction began in March 2022, the budget was just under \u00a334m and the project was expected to be completed by the end of 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">WBC said energy prices, manpower shortages, and construction issues all led to the cost increasing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By July 2025, the cost had increased to more than \u00a346m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A report to be considered by WBC next week will recommend the budget increase by more than \u00a32.4m to cover all costs, bringing the total to almost \u00a348.95m<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, the council said it would &#8220;continue to consider all legal remedies available to seek recovery of costs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added: &#8220;The joint strategic committee will be asked next week to allow officers to appoint any additional legal or consultancy firms deemed necessary to complete the WICC and recover costs incurred.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, Galliford Try said: &#8220;We continue to work with WBC to bring the building back under their control as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When construction began in March 2022, the budget was just under \u00a334m and the project was expected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-474707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}