COLCHESTER Council is set to win back millions of pounds from a contractor it fired for failing to build the town’s controversial Visual Arts Facility.

An independent adjudicator decided Banner Holding failed to follow the council’s instructions, did not carry out construction “in a workmanlike manner” and left project managers believing the VAF would not be built on time.

The firm is now facing an estimated £2 million bill from the council and must now decide whether to pay up or take the matter to court.

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