The two councils had awarded the contract to build and manage the plant to Amey Cespa.
The council said it worked with Amey, who maintain Walsall's street lights, to install the new floodlight in Aldridge.
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The situation is unlikely to improve, in Mr Amey's view, since the Bank of England is determined to keep interest rates low.
Builder Amey said work had been affected by the wet and freezing weather which had delayed the laying of concrete at the site.
Amey Cespa has been awarded a contract to build and manage the plant by North Yorkshire County Council and the City of York Council.
The council and Amey supply grit to community groups who then store it through the year and spread it themselves when it is needed.
Mrs Amey-Obeng explained that, once her clinic was running, she realised that the imported products they were recommending often proved too expensive for their clients.
The plant would be built and managed by Amey Cespa on behalf of the City of York Council and the county council, using private finance initiative funding.
Chris Lucas from Amey, the firm that carries out gritting for the area, said roads across the region were not too bad, although traffic was moving slower than normal.
Other big construction groups like Carillion, Alfred McAlpine and Laing are reinventing themselves to take advantage of the PFI contracts as are service companies like Capita, Serco and Amey.
Amey, which botched its accounts and also wildly overestimated the likely revenues of the Croydon tram system it was building in south London, was bought by a Spanish construction company in 2003.
Amey, a partner in the consortium selected to upgrade the London Underground, said in March it would include the costs when they occurred, rather than deferring them until it was named preferred bidder.
Amey, which is doing the building work on behalf of Herefordshire Council, said it understood residents' frustrations but said its workers were "doing everything they can to get the bridge reopened as quickly as possible".
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