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MEDIA RELEASE
Issued: September 7, 2021
Parish council looks to return to North Weald Library
North Weald Bassett Parish Council is considering a move back into its office at North Weald Library having run its services from The Parish Hall at Thornwood during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Parish council clerk Sue de Luca told Monday's parish council meeting the return could be achieved "if we took appropriate measures" at the library.
She added that with bookings returning it was becoming increasingly difficult for the parish council to continue to operate its face-to-face administrative centre at the Parish Hall.
Should the return to the library go ahead, the parish council could then hire out its current office space at The Parish Hall as a small meeting room, the meeting was told.
The move would see a maximum of two parish council staff working in the library at any one time.
Mrs de Luca said: "We had to move out (of the library) because under risk assessment we couldn't keep you (councillors) and the staff safe but we feel we could now if we took appropriate measures.
"We should ask Essex County Council that if we go back we go back on our terms with an enhanced Service Level Agreement which includes work being carried out to room at the back and the storage area."
Parish councillors agreed the idea of a return to the library should be pursued through county councillor Chris Whitbread.
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