Bury Council is now formally consulting on its proposals to close 10 or 11 of our 14 libraries.
Consultations run until 27 April.
There are two options are:
1) to retain the following library buildings: Bury (plus Archives), Ramsbottom, and Prestwich;
2) to retain Bury (plus Archives), Ramsbottom, Prestwich and Radcliffe.
You can read the proposals online at http://www.bury.gov.uk/libraryservicereview or read a hard copy at any library or at Bury Town Hall, Whittaker Street in Radcliffe, and 3 Knowsley Place in Bury.
How to have your say:
Online – go to https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/bury-libraries-consultation
By post – to Bury Library, Manchester Road, Bury BL9 0DG
By email – to library.suggestions@bury.gov.uk
Liberal Democrats across Bury are campaigning to save our libraries – you can sign our petition below.
If libraries must be closed then those FOUR should be saved to at least allow reasonable access rather than long distance travel. But we should be encouraging library use, not discouraging.
Blackpool is solving this problem by cutting staff (not a pleasant exercise obviously – but we may have staff willing to take voluntary retirement) and cutting hours. Has Bury looked at this solution?