Garden Bridge trustees handed Bouygues £21m to 'push project through', says London Assembly

By Jordan Marshall2019-04-11T05:00:00

Garden Bridge working group chair says there are plenty of reasons it may not have been a reasonable decision

The man running the London Assembly's inquiry into the failed Garden Bridge project has accused the trustees of the charity of handing Bouygues £21m "in an attempt to push the project through".

Tom Copley, who chairs the Assembly's Garden Bridge working group, said he found it "extremely disappointing" that the Charity Commission had decided to not further investigate the role of the Garden Bridge trustees, which the regulator admitted earlier this week.

In his response to the Charity Commissions report on the project Copley said: "Their [trustees] decision to sign a construction contract in an attempt to push this project through, despite not having even secured the land on the south bank to build it on, nor the necessary planning consents, cost the taxpayer £21m.

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