Whitehaven Civic Hall closes its' doors

As part of the package of cuts made by Copeland Borough Council, the Civic Hall in Whitehaven closes its doors today and will remain closed unless someone can be found to operate it without taxpayer subsidy.

Copeland will undoubtedly try to blame the government for this and there would have been an element of truth in this if they meant it was the responsibility of the previous government. Which left a legacy of fiscal laxity in which the country was heading towards bankruptcy and harsh measures were inevitable.

We are not out of the woods yet either, and the fact that the economy is growing again doesn't mean that the government can afford to let up, only that Britain's chances of avoiding a complete financial meltdown are improving.

Nevertheless the fact that the cuts have been harsher in Copeland than some other local councils is largely due to consistently poor management by successive Labour administrations which have made a compete mess of running this borough for decades.

Comments

Jim said…
The thing with the Civic hall being a private enterprise it would have to up the number of events. Whilst this is no bad thing, its badly located in terms of parking.
If the number of events were increased then Morrisons would soon be rather upset by people using the car park there, and most people would rather than pay the high price of the car park opposite the council offices. Whitehaven is not the easiest town to enter at the best of times, the lights at the top of coach road/bottom of incerman and then the sendnd set at morrisons make access harder, then trying to get out of morrisons car park is a problem, and trying to get out of morrisons garage is a nightmare. Coming in from the other side to get to the civic means you need to go all around the one way system, then you end up on morrisons anyway.

Another thing i hear (though not sure how true it is) is that the boiler in the civic hall is also used to heat the Library, not sure how a deal to split the heating bill would work, though its not impossible to overcome i guess.

I think the council delibratly close the high profile facilities, the ones people actually want, just so they can appear to make "government cuts" appear much worse than they really are.

Bin collections
Civic Hall
Public toilets
etc.

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