The Future of Crofton Library - Decision due July 31st

Following the launch of our online e-petition, and emails to Councillors Cummings, Manifield and Heptinstall along with emails to Smoke Signal, Council Leader Peter Box and the Wakefield Express we have received information that a decision about the future of Crofton Library will be made a council meeting on July 31st following the submission of a report which will recommend changes.

I glad to say that all our local councillors have voted in the e-petition and supported the statement

"We, the undersigned call on Wakefield Council not to close Crofton Community Library" 

Crofton Library Saved?

While we have been given very positive assurances in an email today from Councillor Cummings concerning the fate of our Library (until the Council Votes on the future of the Library nothing is guaranteed) we would urge Crofton Residents to vote in the free online e-petition to underline the value the community puts on the work the Community Library does for the Schools and Community.

I am glad to report in the email  that the councillors write "that there is no truth whatsoever in the rumour that the Library will close in August 2012" and they are hopeful that the new business plan will be accepted on the 31st.


This is Good News and it shows that local residents can make a difference when they lobby local government especially when an absence of  information erodes public confidence in the future of local infrastructure.

Yet the threat of closure was no mere rumour, Crofton Library like many others in the area have been blighted since the commissioning of the 2011 Dagger Report (an appropriately named report after Councillor Dagger which cast a shadow over their future - Crofton was not considered worthy of "Hub status")


Is the threat over? -  it is clear that behind the scenes and out of sight of Crofton residents much hard work has been done to save our Library. It is still not clear what cuts and cost savings however have been made to service provision , whether the service will pass into private hands (perhaps Crofton Academy?) and the council may still reject the report's recommendations.

We hope the councillors are right and lets hope for a bright future for the library, which occupies the site of the School which educated the likes of the Bronte Sisters.

What would the Bronte's think?

 
But to be on the safe side lets keep up the pressure on the council to do the right thing by Crofton.

Consider the proposition - we often don't realise the value of something until it is taken away from us.



Don't let our Library Close - please vote.

Save Crofton Library | Online Petition

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