Podular in Liquidation

The Times-Age has followed up news that the company Podular has gone into liquidation. Podular had been contracted to provide the Youth Hub at the skatepark.

In response to queries from the Times-Age, the following statement from CE David Hopman has been provided:

We were disappointed to hear the news that Podular had gone into liquidation. The Council agreed that we use Podular to design and build our Youth Hub in July 2021.

The building was due to be delivered and installed at the Skatepark in January 2023.

Obviously, we will do all we can to recover the payments made to the company – currently totalling $260,000 and made up of our initial payment and cost for lodging our building consent.

We are most disappointed for our ratepayers and our skatepark users, who were looking forward to their Youth Hub opening.

We will start work exploring new options to deliver the Youth Hub facility and hope a local company will bid for the build when we call for tenders.