Business case delivered to Adams yesterday

The scope and cost of work required to bring Dunedin's historic courthouse out of mothballs has been delivered to Justice Minister Amy Adams.

The business case was prepared by the Ministry of Justice using information gathered in more than three and a half years of investigations.

In that time, engineering examinations were completed, geotechnical analysis performed, core samples taken from walls, and the 1902 courthouse's relationship with its complex of newer adjoining buildings analysed.

The result was a business case Mrs Adams had suggested would be ''north of $10 million'', although details were not expected to be made public due to commercial sensitivities concerning potential tendering.

A ministry spokesman confirmed the business case was delivered to the minister yesterday afternoon. It would next be taken to Cabinet, where its merit and cost would be debated before the Government decided whether to fund the strengthening work.

The Otago Daily Times approached the minister's office for comment yesterday morning but did not receive a reply.

 

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