Brighton and Hove Council has got itself into another right old mess, this time over the future of the Palmeira Project in Hove.
The home was scheduled for closure next month after the council said the costs of running the project, run by NCH Action for Children, were much higher than expected.
Now a High Court judge in London has questioned the closure decision, which means the council will have to think again.
A report will have to be drawn up taking into consideration both the views of the parents and NCH.
Emotions have been running high over the future of this project, which caters for children with severe emotional difficulties.
It can't have been much fun for the parents to take court action, but they are now a step nearer towards their aim of keeping the home open.
Meanwhile, the council has suffered a legal setback and its citizens will have to help pay a considerable bill into the bargain.
This follows serious problems Brighton and Hove had last year over the Kemp Town parking schemes, whose introduction had to be postponed by many months after residents kicked up a fuss.
The council itself is probing what went wrong when East Brighton College of Media Arts flopped within a few months of being launched.
These stories and many more put serious question marks over the way the authority is being run.
It will have to listen much more to what ordinary people are saying.
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