UPDATE: NO CHANGE – COUNCIL WILL NOT LET MONEY BE SPENT TO IMPROVE CENTRE

The county council is still refusing councillors and community associations permission to invest in community buildings. The report which is going to cabinet on Wednesday is recommending transfering all community buildings to the groups running them, or closing them.

Yet for a year now I have been refused permission by the Labour run Council  to invest to make the centre in Framwellgate Moor more efficient and better for users, despite matched funding being available from the Community Association running the centre.

The Council’s figures for the cost of repairs after decades of failure to invest properly by the Labour run County Council do not add up and I am challenging both the figures and the fact that the Council is refusing to let me invest your council tax money in your local facilities. I have a meeting this week to start negotiations on the future for Framwellgate Moor Community Centre. Further discussions will be needed for Bearpark Communty Centre, Beaurepaire, Woodbine Rd, Flambard Rd and Fyndoune Way centres in Bearpark, Fram, Pity Me and Witton Gilbert respectively.

The Community Centre Association at Fram is looking for new members to join the committee, if you are interested please get in touch.

It is absurd to be stating a desire to transfer ownership to centres and then to refuse them permission to invest. Hopefully this weeks meeting and next weeks Cabinet will have a positive response.