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18-11-2016, 10:29 PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/18/buckingham-palace-to-get-369m-facelift-over-10-years/
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Sovereign Grant to be doubled from £40m to £76m starting next year
The Royal Family's Sovereign Grant to be doubled to fund restoration of Buckingham Palace over next decade
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Throne Room of Buckingham Palace
The Queen is to be given £369 million of taxpayers’ money to carry out a 10-year refit of Buckingham Palace.
The cash has been approved by the Prime Minister, Theresa May, and the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, and is expected to be rubber-stamped by Parliament in the next six months.
The move is likely to prove controversial, coming at a time when public sector services are facing cuts and pay freezes as a result of the Government’s austerity drive.
But surveyors said that unless urgent work was carried out to replace ancient cabling, plumbing and other services, there was a serious danger of “potentially catastrophic building failure” in years to come.
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The work will include replacing 100 miles of electrical cabling - much of it 60 years old - 30 miles of water pipes, 6,500 electrical sockets, 5,000 light fittings, 2,500 radiators and 500 pieces of sanitaryware.
It will also involve lifting 30,000sq m of floorboards, the equivalent of three-and-a-half football pitches.
The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the Royal family will remain in residence while the work is carried out between 2017 and 2027, but temporary accommodation will be built in the gardens of the Palace for some of the 37 staff who live there.
The Queen will, however, have to move out of her apartments for a period when they come to be refitted.
The work will be funded through an increase in the Sovereign Grant - the money given to the Queen which is based on profits of the Crown Estate.
The Queen currently receives the equivalent of 15 per cent of the profits of the Crown Estate - the monarch’s property portfolio which is now in the hands of the Treasury - but that will go up to 25 per cent for the duration of the work.
It means the Queen will receive £76.1m in 2017/18, an increase of £30m on what she was previously expected to receive.
A disgrace that they've been allowed to get in such a condition. The Palace of Westminster (Parliament) is literally falling apart and is going to cost £5bn+ to put right. This is what happens when everything is just patched up for decades. Both buildings look very grand on television, but if you visit Parliament up close as I did earlier this year you really notice how battered and worn it is: needs a full restoration project which is in the pipeline.
Canada is currently in the process of fully refurbishing their Parliament buildings. Work began earlier this decade.
Thoughts?
http://order-order.com/
Sovereign Grant to be doubled from £40m to £76m starting next year
The Royal Family's Sovereign Grant to be doubled to fund restoration of Buckingham Palace over next decade
http://jessicaleake.com/newsite/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/buckingham-palace2-jpg.jpg
Throne Room of Buckingham Palace
The Queen is to be given £369 million of taxpayers’ money to carry out a 10-year refit of Buckingham Palace.
The cash has been approved by the Prime Minister, Theresa May, and the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, and is expected to be rubber-stamped by Parliament in the next six months.
The move is likely to prove controversial, coming at a time when public sector services are facing cuts and pay freezes as a result of the Government’s austerity drive.
But surveyors said that unless urgent work was carried out to replace ancient cabling, plumbing and other services, there was a serious danger of “potentially catastrophic building failure” in years to come.
http://i1.wp.com/order-order.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/BUCK.png?resize=540%2C268
The work will include replacing 100 miles of electrical cabling - much of it 60 years old - 30 miles of water pipes, 6,500 electrical sockets, 5,000 light fittings, 2,500 radiators and 500 pieces of sanitaryware.
It will also involve lifting 30,000sq m of floorboards, the equivalent of three-and-a-half football pitches.
The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the Royal family will remain in residence while the work is carried out between 2017 and 2027, but temporary accommodation will be built in the gardens of the Palace for some of the 37 staff who live there.
The Queen will, however, have to move out of her apartments for a period when they come to be refitted.
The work will be funded through an increase in the Sovereign Grant - the money given to the Queen which is based on profits of the Crown Estate.
The Queen currently receives the equivalent of 15 per cent of the profits of the Crown Estate - the monarch’s property portfolio which is now in the hands of the Treasury - but that will go up to 25 per cent for the duration of the work.
It means the Queen will receive £76.1m in 2017/18, an increase of £30m on what she was previously expected to receive.
A disgrace that they've been allowed to get in such a condition. The Palace of Westminster (Parliament) is literally falling apart and is going to cost £5bn+ to put right. This is what happens when everything is just patched up for decades. Both buildings look very grand on television, but if you visit Parliament up close as I did earlier this year you really notice how battered and worn it is: needs a full restoration project which is in the pipeline.
Canada is currently in the process of fully refurbishing their Parliament buildings. Work began earlier this decade.
Thoughts?