Future of Town Hall back on the agenda (From This Is Lancashire)

Future of Town Hall back on the agenda

12:44pm Friday 26th January 2007

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A RENEWED effort will be made to stop the rot at Whitefield Town Hall.

Talks are set to resume on the future of the 200-year-old building, which has been left derelict for several years and subject to vandalism.

Developers plan to convert the structure into a 50-bed residential care home. But the development floundered last year when Bury Council insisted on conditions in keeping with the area's conservation area status.

Pilkington Park Ward Coun Michelle Wiseman, chairman of Whitefield and Unsworth area board, met Bury Council leader Wayne Campbell to voice her concerns. Coun Wiseman said that a meeting has now been planned between Mr Campbell, council chief executive Mark Sanders and the area board, to take place in February.

Mrs Wiseman said: "The building, garden and pond are still a shambles in spite of meetings taking place over a year ago with officers and the developers.

"The building is in a prominent position in Whitefield and it is becoming an eyesore that is unsafe, dangerous and attracts anti-social behaviour.

"Hopefully, we will be able to move this forward."

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