{"id":5981,"date":"2015-03-13T15:20:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T15:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=5981"},"modified":"2015-03-13T15:20:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T15:20:52","slug":"cardiff-councils-broken-promise-over-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2015\/03\/13\/cardiff-councils-broken-promise-over-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Cardiff Council reneging on library promise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions are being raised over\u00a0the council&#8217;s pledge to save Cardiff\u2019s libraries, as Roath library remains shut.<br \/>\nOriginally shut for a broken boiler and then because of the threat by Cardiff Council to cut funding for seven of Cardiff\u2019s libraries, Roath library is now shut because of damage to its roof causing a leak.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5997\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5997\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/11039411_10155330855000051_1873450640_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5997\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/11039411_10155330855000051_1873450640_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Scaffolding around Roath library\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5997\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/11039411_10155330855000051_1873450640_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Scaffolding around Roath library\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Scaffolding around Roath library<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAll in all it means the library is heading into its fourth month of closure, and no alternative method of delivering the\u00a0services the library offers has been found. Cardiff Council is\u00a0said to have been looking into the option of using St German\u2019s church as an alternative while maintenance is carried out, but is\u00a0understood to be baulking at the \u00a3100,000 cost of refurbishing the church to make it suitable.<br \/>\nTo make matters worse for the residents of Adamsdown, the smaller library at the STAR community centre in neighbouring Splott will also soon be unavailable to use as the centre is due to be demolished. Its replacement will not be ready for a good few months and will be in Tremorfa, making it further away for the Adamsdown residents to reach.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5999\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/11072939_10155330855060051_791722549_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5999\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/11072939_10155330855060051_791722549_n-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Notice outside the library\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5999\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/11072939_10155330855060051_791722549_n-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Notice outside the library\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Notice outside the library<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nCouncillor Manzoor Ahmed, who is a Labour councillor for Adamsdown, said: \u201cI have been a councillor for two years and there was no maintenance work done for 14 years before that. That\u2019s 16 years without maintenance being carried out on Roath library. It\u2019s really in a bad state.<br \/>\n\u201cIn an area as deprived as Adamsdown they should be adding to the services, not taking them away.\u201d<br \/>\nA spokesperson for Cardiff Council said: \u201cThe closure of Roath library is not a permanent one\u201d but declined to comment further when the library would be open and how the Council is\u00a0going to offer the library\u2019s services to the Adamsdown community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions are being raised over\u00a0the council&#8217;s pledge to save Cardiff\u2019s libraries, as Roath library remains shut. Originally shut for a broken boiler and then because of the threat by Cardiff Council to cut funding for seven of Cardiff\u2019s libraries, Roath library is now shut because of damage to its roof causing a leak. All in all it means the library is heading into its fourth month of closure, and no alternative method of delivering the\u00a0services the library offers has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,3],"tags":[200,1291,1439,213,2978],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adamsdown","category-news","tag-adamsdown","tag-cardiff-2","tag-library","tag-roath","tag-star"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is Cardiff Council reneging on library promise? - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2015\/03\/13\/cardiff-councils-broken-promise-over-library\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is Cardiff Council reneging on library promise? - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Questions are being raised over\u00a0the council&#8217;s pledge to save Cardiff\u2019s libraries, as Roath library remains shut. 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