A former library is one of five Leeds Council buildings set to be sold, as the cash-strapped local authority looks to rake in much needed cash.
The old Crossgates Library, on Farm Road in the east Leeds suburb, is set to be transferred to the private sector, with plans to turn it into a boxing club having received local support. The area’s library services were moved across to Crossgates Shopping Centre in February 2022 in what was supposed to have been a temporary move.
Commenting at a meeting of the council’s executive board on Wednesday, the council’s deputy leader, Debra Coupar said the sales were necessary to try to ease the local authority’s financial predicament. “This is one of the ways we’re proposing we can raise some capital to help with that situation,” she said. The council has overshot it’s budget by £30m already this year, with government cutbacks and spiralling bills in children’s social care blamed for the bleak picture.
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