Promise for progress on city’s community centres ‘left in limbo’

COUNCIL SAYS IT AIMS TO PUSH FORWARD WITH NEGOTIATIONS TO MAKE THEM SELF-SUFFICIENT

- By OLIVER PRIDMORE [e-mail]

NOTTINGHAM City Council has insisted it wants to push forward with negotiations on the future of its community centres after some complained they had been “left in limbo”.

The Labour-run authority says it has now written to all of the community centres it has been responsible for as it tries to make them self-sufficient.

The Post's Protect Nottingham Community Centres campaign was launched on January 13 to call for a radical change in the city council’s approach. The authority has provided a subsidy of £600,000 a year to all its community centres combined and the council now wants to end these payments as it battles multi-million-pound budget gaps.