Twyford

Frank Browne, the Conservative leader of Wokingham District Council, has refused to listen to calls for the council to acquire the Twyford JW Green’s site for a much needed new library.

Your local district Councillors. Stephen Conway and Dee Tomlin, have been campaigning for the site to be used for a new library since the beginning of the year, and there has been enormous public support for the proposal.

But Cllr Browne is adamant that the district council will not fund the move. He has said that if Twyford residents waant a new library on the site, they should pay for it themselves through an increased parish council rate.

“This is an outrageous suggestion”, Dee told FOCUS, “Twyford residents already pay for the library service through their council tax; they shouldn’t have to pay for it twice.”

“No other parish has been expected to pay for its own library”, Stephen added, “So why is the Conservative leader singling out Twyford? It reminds me of our campaign to get CCTV in the village centre – we had to raise much of the money locally even though the district council had fully funded cameras in other district centres.”

Twyford Liberal Democrats