As I indicated, what is proposed will provide proper disabled access to the meeting rooms on the first floor, which is to be welcomed. However, in my view it falls short of what is really required to create a proper community resource for the West End.
In addition to the proposals, we really need to see provision of a base for community groups, upgrading of the library and meeting rooms and ease of access to the facility in the evenings and weekends for local residents and community groups.
At present, the large meeting room upstairs can be exceptionally warm on summer days and its impossible, given its glass dome, to show electronic presentations. Furthermore, the area and the library downstairs would greatly benefit from sympathetic refurbishment that these proposals do not provide for.
I made the point at the Community Spirit meeting and direct to the Chief Executive that there was the need for a proper public display of the proposals and consultation events at the library and I am grateful that he has written to me to agree to this. Details of this are given in the poster below and I would urge local residents to go along, look at the proposals and give their views:
Late PM on 8th February - updated poster and download as City Council altered consultation times.