13 November 2010
COMMUNITY COUNCIL OPPOSE RELOCATION OF LOCAL LIBRARY
COMMUNITY COUNCIL OPPOSE RELOCATION OF LOCAL LIBRARY.
Taff’s Well and Nantgarw Community Council has raised a number of concerns about the County Council’s proposal to close Taff’s Well Library and relocate its services at Coleg Morgannwg’s Nantgarw Campus.
The County Council claim that the new Taf Ely Learning Centre at Coleg Morgannwg’s Nantgarw Campus will create the opportunity for the library to be relocated in new facilities and that this partnership project will provide a state of the art campus, which will be readily available along with a variety of other community facilities to local residents. This will include a restaurant, hair dressing salon and beauty therapy services run by the staff and students of Coleg Morgannwg.
However, the move is strongly opposed by the Community Council and many local residents and an action group has already been formed to fight the move.
Commenting on the proposed relocation Councillor Jill Bonnetto, Chairman of the Community council said, “Whilst it is recognised that the existing library is in need of renovation the Community Council is concerned that the proposed provision is not easily accessible and remote from the local community it purports to serve”.
“To access the provision local people will have to walk 1.5 miles along unlit and unpaved roads and the bus services to the Coleg Morgannwg Campus are totally inadequate. We call on the County Council to rethink this matter and provide services that are accessible and serve the needs of the local community”
“ The Community Council will work with and support the local action group and would urge local people to attend the public meeting, to be held at Saints Mary and James Church Hall, Taff’s Well on Thursday 9th December commencing at 6 pm” and show their opposition to this ill-conceived proposal”
