A new council taxi and private hire testing centre is £1.3 million over its estimated cost and nearly a year late, a Local Democracy Reporting Service investigation can reveal.

Sources have attributed the delay to problems including concrete work having to be redone and the facility not having enough electricity.

All the while, staff at the current Murrayburn testing centre have been getting overtime pay to deal with capacity issues after part of the building was declared unsafe in late 2022.

Bosses at Edinburgh Council did not contest the issues at the new South Gyle facility but said upgrades to power supply infrastructure had been included in plans for the new centre from the start.

And they said that the costs of the project, as they had originally been identified, were based o

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