A council is set to pledge £4m to ensure Whitchurch's danger concrete-ridden Civic Centre is fixed - one way or another.
A council is set to pledge £4m to ensure Whitchurch's danger concrete-ridden Civic Centre is fixed - one way or another.Shropshire Council is to set aside £4m to carry out repairs and put a new roof on the building - which has been partly closed since the discovery of RAAC in 2023.
The money could also be used as 'match funding' for a full re-build of the site, if external money can be secured for the project. The council’s Cabinet will next week - February 12 - be asked to identify up to £4m within its capital strategy towards the repair or rebuilding ofCivic Centre – and also to agree to an urgent ‘needs analysis’ to ensure that the future configuration of the centre"meets the needs of local people".
The centre has been closed since September 2003 – except for the sports/market hall – after specialist engineers found that RAAC exists across the majority of the Civic Centre complex, and that it has major structural issues.
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