Aborted sale of Bottle Yard Studios cost taxpayers £430k View Image

The aborted sale of world-famous Bottle Yard Studios cost Bristol City Council taxpayers £430,000 , it has been revealed.

The authority wanted to privatise the South West’s biggest TV and film studios, which it owns, but the idea collapsed in July when a three-month period for negotiations with the preferred bidder to take it on expired.

Actors union Equity opposed the controversial sell-off of the production centre, which has been used by many of the globe’s biggest small- and big-screen entertainment industries, including the BBC , ITV , Amazon , Netflix and Paramount.

Opposition Cllr Tim Rippington ( Labour , Brislington East) submitted a question to a recent meeting of the council’s member forum a

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