How much of our licence fee was spent on this shambles?

In July 2017, walesonline proclaimed: "the new £120m headquarters for BBC Cymru Wales is on track for practical completion next spring, with it also being confirmed that it will be linked by underground fibre optic cabling to the Principality Stadium. [...] The cabling linking up with the Principality Stadium, which is within yards of the new HQ at Central Square immediately north of Cardiff Central Railway Station, will allow, for the first time, BBC Wales sport and news teams to have instant editing access to images from sporting events at the stadium. Plans for cutting-edge technology, including a virtual reality enabled studio and augmented reality capabilities are now in place. [...] BBC Wales has yet to finalise its staff migration programme but it will see the first staff, most likely in non news administration roles, moving into the building in autumn 2019. The plan is to have all staff in the building in the first quarter of 2020."

BBC has now had to admit that it "is still unable to give a date when broadcasting will commence at the Central Square, despite receiving the keys to its new HQ in April 2018. At that time it was said that fitting out the building with broadcast technology would take 18 months – until October 2019. But five months after that date passed, new equipment is still in the testing phase. One BBC source said some staff were increasingly frustrated by the delays, which are also affecting the Welsh language broadcaster S4C, whose employees are being split between Central Square and Carmarthen."

Loyal readers will know that I long ago objected to one of the best rail/bus interchanges in the country being sacrificed to what looked like a vanity project by the cosseted BBC. The corporation and the Welsh RFU will no doubt point to the fantastic linkage between the Principality Stadium and the new HQ as justification (no mention of Sophia Gardens or the Cardiff City stadium where international matches in other sports are also staged) but they have already missed enhanced coverage of the 2019/20 Six Nations championship. Maybe, if the championship is not abandoned altogether, Covid-19 has come to the corporation's rescue.

We should be told what the final cost of the project will be, bearing in mind the need to hold on to Llandaff longer than planned. It would also be reassuring to know that the corporation will be compensated by suppliers of technical equipment where these were at fault.