The court stated that the STDC was responsible for it's own costs plus 80% of PD Port's, a total of around £5 million, unfortunately this is all public taxpayers money, all because the STDC refused to a reasonable deal , Houchen's choice, therefore he is at fault. It was interesting at the trial that it was Julie Gillespie, ( the STDC CEO, with her _£170k salary plus perks) who was in court.... Houchen was obviously busy on his social media so could not attend