Organisers at a Shrewsbury arts venue are hoping the backing of thousands of town residents will help prevent the building from being sold to developers.
The social enterprise currently running the English Bridge Workshop delivered a petition to Shropshire Council and says it fears the authority could sell the building in order to help address its ongoing budget crisis.says financial concerns are “secondary” to ensuring similar community assets are protected, and is negotiating to find the best way forward.
“It was partly our fear that we’d had little or no contact with the council, and there’s this whole grey area of what is community usage when it comes to the CAT transfer.” But the council says the income generated from these uses, despite being used to support the building’s use as a not-for-profit enterprise, means it may fall into a commercial category.
“We need a long term lease. The building hasn’t had nearly anything done to it in the last 40 years – it’s not accessible, there’s no insulation and the heating is quite old. That’s a limit for us to get people into the space – we’re increasing footfall but during the winter months it’s difficult.
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