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Anger over hit to services for more tax as library to close
Birmingham Post
|May 29, 2025
THE main library in Sutton Coldfield is set to close soon - prompting anger as people get a poorer service for their rising rates.
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The library, based in the Red Rose Centre, will shut in a little over a month's time as part of cash-strapped Birmingham City Council's 'transformation' of library services in a bid to save costs.
The council said the town centre library will shut on Friday, June 27.
It is understood staff were informed a short while ago and their jobs were not under threat.
A council spokesman said: "The closure of the town centre library also allows Birmingham City Council with partners to progress the redevelopment of the Red Rose shopping centre as a priority for the transformation of the Sutton Coldfield Town Centre."
This story is from the May 29, 2025 edition of Birmingham Post.
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