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Published:
February 6, 2006
Burnham-On-Sea
Town council opens talks on Princess Hall management
Burnham-On-Sea
town councillors have voted in favour of opening talks with the
district council on the possibility of taking over the management
and running of the
town's closure-threatened
Princess Hall.
 Last
month, we reported
how the building (pictured right) could be shut down unless a
new organisation could be found to take it on.
The
current owner, Sedgemoor District Council, is
embarking on a cost-cutting exercise
and wants a new organisation to take over its management.
At
a meeting of the full town council on Monday night (February 6th)
members unanimously voted in favour of "showing an interest"
in taking on the management and running of the building.
And
Council Clerk Eileen Shaw was tasked by Mayor Eric Gill with "entering
into consultation with Sedgemoor while keeping the town council's
Policy and Finance Committee and other members fully informed."
"There
will be no commitments or decisions without consulting the whole
of this council," added Cllr Gill.
Given
the delicate nature of the discussions over the future of the
building, councillors did not openly debate the subject further.
It
comes after a letter seeking 'expressions of interest' in the
running of the hall was sent to the town council.
Sedgemoor
District Council spokeswoman Claire Faun told Burnham-On-Sea.com
in January: "As part of this year's budget proposals we will
be seeking to find alternative organisations to manage The Princess
in Burnham."
"We
firmly believe halls and buildings of all sizes can be run by
local organisations for their communities in a far more appropriate
way than by a district Council."
The
comments came just days after the District Council also announced
it was trying to sell off Burnham's swimming pool, as reported
here.
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