15 years to resolve damages case over Scottish wall collapse.
Glasgow City Council has been ordered to pay £175,000 damages over a decision taken 15 years ago which shaved £12,000 from a demolition contract.
The council opted against stabalising works for a wall, which would be left exposed after the upper three storeys of a tenement had been knocked down.
Part of the wall collapsed in a gale, crashing through the roof of a restaurant, and a judge has ruled that the council should meet the cost of the damage.
Morag Wise, QC, said at the Court of Session in Edinburgh that the director of building control in 1996, Ian Taylor, had decided to drop “tying-in” works from the contract, in the full knowledge that it would leave a structurally unstable wall.
“He failed to have regard to the risk to the safety of persons and property in the vicinity of the newly-exposed wall,” Ms Wise added.
K2 Restaurants, which has an Indian restaurant, the Koh I Noor, at 235 North Street, sued the council over the damage to its building in November 1996.
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