The Friends of Library Walk want to save the special place that is Library Walk (see photo below left as it was from the 1930s until this autumn) from the council’s proposals to gate and glaze it. The scheme is unnecessary and a waste of money. As a Friend of Library Walk I too oppose the privatisation of public space and want to protect a much loved right of way!
The Public Inquiry starts today 21 October from 10.00 at the Council Chambers in Manchester Town Hall. It is also taking place tomorrow, 22 October. Please attend if you can- sadly I have to be at work but will be there in heart and mind.
Manchester CIty Council have stolen the public's space of Library Walk - an elegant sweep and a link between Albert and St Peter's Squares; they have wasted millions of pounds in the process. People objected in large numbers when plans were released a few years back but the council ignored us. Hopefully sense will prevail and the sorry out-of-keeping monstrosity, let alone the fact it is an obstruction, will be taken down. Those responsible for ignoring the public will should surely foot the bill, not the tax payers.
Before, for the past 80 years; and right and above, as it is now.
Amazing how they can do such good work restoring the library and moving the cenotaph and yet ruin Library Walk like this. I'm also wondering where Adrift will end up.
ReplyDeleteWe fight the good fight each in our own back yards. Carry on!
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What a monstrosity! I do hope it gets removed. Years ago I used to work at the Central Library and I'm so sorry about this, a place I loved ruined.
ReplyDeleteI am with you Chrissy. No need to ruin public space.
ReplyDeleteThat is a monstrosity. Council needs a collective smack in the head.
ReplyDeleteI just don't understand WHY! some of the decision councils and government make are totally ludicrous and you just have to wonder at the reasoning! Hope people power wins out here Chrissy.
ReplyDeletep.s. thanks for the link to Stewy, I really love his whimsical little stencils, must be fun to come across them.
I would be right there with you Chrissy!
ReplyDeleteThat's appalling. Regret I can't attend the 'Public Inquiry' as I'm out of the country. To describe the Council's action as stealing the area from the public is an understatement. They're also extinguishing a Public Right of Way....and throwing oodles of dish at a completely unnecessary project at a time when we're all supposed to be tightening our belts.
ReplyDeleteDisgraceful.
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I hope to heaven that it gets rejected.
But if we succeed in getting it demolished they will have wasted even more of our money!
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