Highgate Library news

Published: September 8, 2011

I AM loath, once again, to write in about Highgate Library for fear of sounding like a broken record.

However, it appears that Councillor Maya De Souza has misunderstood the situation (Letters, September 1), and so I shall endeavour to explain again.

Highgate Library is not closing.

What is happening is that the mobile library books currently stored there will be removed and this will free up space at the back of the library.

I will look to work with the community to use this space effectively and generate revenue because we are, as everyone is aware, in financially constrained times. This will not change the fact that the council will continue to fund the library.

I have repeated this plan so often that most councillors could probably recite it from memory.
Cllr Tulip Siddiq
Cabinet Member for Culture