Radcliffe Library will remain open in its current location while work to build new facilities at the civic hub takes place. As part of the £40 million Radcliffe regeneration project, the existing library building in Stand Lane will be turned into an enterprise centre to support businesses.
Construction is due to start in the next two months and cannot be delayed, because the £1.2 million secured from the government, complemented by £455,000 from the council, must be fully spent by March 2025.
Only last month the council ruled out keeping the service within the present building during conversion due to health and safety issues.
Council leaders looked at moving the library to a number of other locations in the town without success. They have now decided that the best and least disruptive solution would be stay at its current site and move the library to the first floor of the building.
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