{"id":9919,"date":"2015-11-30T16:01:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T16:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=9919"},"modified":"2015-11-30T16:01:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T16:01:03","slug":"roath-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/roath-library","title":{"rendered":"Roath Library: Will it reopen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Cardiff\u2019s most deprived communities has been struggling without the Roath Library for a year now and there is no sign of it being opened anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>The Roath library in Adamsdown was temporarily closed after the boiler failed and the roof started leaking about a year ago.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9920\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9920\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/roath-2-final.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9920\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/roath-2-final.jpg\" alt=\"Posters put on the closed Roath library doors.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/roath-2-final.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/roath-2-final-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/roath-2-final-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9920\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/roath-2-final.jpg\" alt=\"Posters put on the closed Roath library doors.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/roath-2-final.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/roath-2-final-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/roath-2-final-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Posters put on the closed Roath library door.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Welsh Assembly Member Eluned Parrott said: \u2018\u2019The area is home to one of most deprived communities. People go there to use the computers to apply for jobs and young families using the library to teach their children to read books they can\u2019t afford to buy.\u2019\u2019\u00a0In July, the cabinet council had said it will immediately implement temporary library provision for the area which it has failed to do so further increasing the frustration amongst the campaigners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy colleague Nigel Howells (Adamsdown\u2019s Lib Dem Councillor) has demonstrated that they have the funds to reopen the library. I fail to understand what is taking them so long to reopen it,\u2019\u2019 Ms. Parrott added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9921\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9921\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/roath-photo-1-final.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9921\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/roath-photo-1-final.jpg\" alt=\"Campaigners protesting outside the Roath library.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/roath-photo-1-final.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/roath-photo-1-final-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/roath-photo-1-final-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9921\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/roath-photo-1-final.jpg\" alt=\"Campaigners protesting outside the Roath library.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/roath-photo-1-final.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/roath-photo-1-final-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/roath-photo-1-final-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Campaigners protesting the closure of the Roath library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cabinet member with responsibility for libraries, Peter Bradbury recently put forward the idea of Community Asset Transfer and has invited interested groups to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>To this Eluned Parrott said: \u201cThe council is looking for ways to get rid of responsibility. The people of Adamsdown need the library perhaps more than others. As a last resort Community Asset Transfer can work in some places. But it is a huge task for local communities to take over all the legal, insurance and financial responsibilities as well as try to run it on the basis on volunteers.\u201d<br \/>\nFor now, the big challenge for the campaigners is to make sure the Roath library is maintained in that area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Cardiff\u2019s most deprived communities has been struggling without the Roath Library for a year now and there is no sign of it being opened anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":9921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Roath Library: Will it reopen? 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