South Lanarkshire Council appear to be having a rethink about closing local libraries. After all the upset, concern, public meetings, protesting and campaigning throughout 2024, the council this week seem to have reconsidered with a surprising and unexpected U-turn. The news comes after the wonderful ‘Save Our Library’s Committee‘ handed over a petition with over […]
A fund of £13 million has been included within the council’s financial plans in the capital programme and this is what has become known as the Transformation Fund which could potentially assist Blantyre Leisure centre. £1m could potentially be used to improve ventilation of Blantyre Leisure Centre with internal remodelling and modernisation of the gym and fitness […]
An update on the overhanging threat of the closure of Blantyre library. On 11th March 2024, a briefing note was issued by South Lanarkshire Council to Councillors to provide an update on their proposals to ‘mitigate’ the impact of leisure and cultural savings taking into account the measures agreed as part of the Council budget, including […]
Following recent discussions and meetings about the potential closure of certain council owned buildings, the results of South Lanarkshire Council consultation are in and unfortunately…..its BAD news for a number of facilities in Blantyre and beyond. At its meeting today, the Board of South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture (SLLC) considered proposals placed before it which […]
You may have read about the Council’s proposal to save money by cutting the school bus transport by raising the walking to school limit from 2 miles to 3. The Council have not yet provided the correct walking route, but have issued a generic route which is 2.97 miles and involves very busy roads and […]
South Lanarkshire Council have met and passed the next years budget. A meeting of the full Council was told today that South Lanarkshire’s funding gap for 2024-25 alone was more than £20.5 million, requiring savings across almost every part of the council’s work. Some “truly awful and painful” decisions had to be taken to balance […]
The non-urgent repairs service for council homes will re-open from Monday 18 September. The service was temporarily suspended to allow Housing & Technical Resources to focus on repairing vacant properties. This allowed tradespeople to prioritise work that needed to be done to vacant council properties to bring more of them back into residential use. Executive […]
A bitter dispute has erupted in South Lanarkshire around the Council’s plans to more than double the cost of children’s football in the area. The decision was taken without proper consultation with the wider community and especially the users of the service and appears completely at odds with current Scottish Government guidance and policies as […]