Library/Market Hall

The paper petition title, as received, is “The Towns Fund bid plan to move Burton Library from its present position to the Market Hall.  As part of the Towns Fund bid £7.3m of the £22.8m bid has been allocated for this move.  £1.54m was spent on renovating the Market Hall in 2014, which now seems a complete waste of taxpayers money.  There was a lack of public consultation in 2009 and 2012 regarding the renovation scheme from ESBC.  We don’t know how the library will be located within the Market hall, but existing Traders would certainly be asked to leave.   £7.3million seems an extortionate amount of money for this, when the current library location is perfectly fine.  Holding a small café within, seating outside overlooking the river and a great playground for the children to play on.  Plus the idea in the £1.54million to renovate the Market Hall was to make it a Live music venue which “Love Burton” have many events lined up for”;

The online petition title, as received, is “Save our Library and Market Hall and stop our library being demolished! (Burton on Trent) “  

The combined total of valid signatures (electronically and in paper format) is 2317.

The petition was reported to the Council meeting held on Monday 26th July 2021.