You Did it! Thank you to all of you across Parks and beyond who joined the forum and Save Swindon Libraies campaign. The Council has confirmed that Parks library will remain funded by the council. A huge victory to us all who care passionately for our library service and the communities in which we live. The hours will be reduced to just 15 but at a time when many, including Liden are being closed, this is good news for Parks….
Labour Cllrs Steve Allsopp and Fay Howard proposed a motion to allow the Save Parks Petition to be heard after the Council Leader David Renard had originally ruled that the petition could not be read at the Council meeting. The petiton, organised by Parks Community Forum, had collected over 1100 signatures calling for the library to be saved. Martin Wicks from the Forum was allowed to speak after Labour called for normal procedure to be suspended. He told the council:…
The Parks and East Walcot Community Forum launched a campaign last month to Save Park Library from potential closure under the new proposal for Swindon’s libraries. The Parks campaign is fully supported by the Save Swindon’s Libraries campaign group. Petitions are out for signature in businesses on Cavendish Square for the remainder of the month. The Save Park Library petition calls upon the Council to amend their proposal only to continue funding to four of Swindon’s 15 libraries after June…
Park library is under threat of closure. Swindon Council is proposing to end funding for Park and 10 other Libraries. They are want to reduce the library service to just four, Central, West Swindon, North Swindon and Highworth. This is under consultation until September 30th. The Parks & East Walcot Community Forum is calling on the Council to include Park Library as part of the core service, with the provision of professional staff, IT and books. As your local councillors,…
The Conservative Council are looking at libraries and community centres as community assets and want to save money by seeing more community run as it is in Walcot. We know how much we all value Park Library, usage has gone up year by year. The Conservative Council are looking at libraries and community centres as community assets and want to save money by seeing more community run as it is in Walcot. We know how much we all value Park…