Cllr Conway hopes to discuss alternative sites
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New call for improved Twyford library
By Lewis RuddJanuary 26, 2012
Talks over a possible new library in Twyford are to reopen.
Councillor Stephen Conway, ward member for the village, invited council leader Cllr David Lee to renew discussions on the possibility of a new library being built in the village.
Cllr Emma Hobbs, the ward member for neighbouring Charvil, has also expressed an interested in the village hosting a new library.
Representatives and residents have long been calling on the council to replace the existing library in Polehampton Close, which is said to be too small and has a limited book collection.
The preferred site for the library, the former JW Green unit in London Road, is in new hands after planning bosses at the authority gave supermarket chain Tesco permission to open an Express store in the building.
This has prompted Cllr Conway to reopen negotiations about potential locations with his colleagues and counterparts at the borough council.
He said at a meeting of Wokingham Borough Council on Thursday, January 19: “The favoured location for a new library is no longer available and I call on the council to have another meeting with me, following the meeting we had before Christmas, to discuss alternative sites."
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