Flooded Swindon library set to reopen before end of summer

A library which remains closed after flash flooding is expected to reopen before the end of summer.

West Swindon Library has been shut since the Link Centre where it is based was damaged after rain in September.

Some facilities at the centre, including its swimming pool and ice rink, have already reopened.

Swindon Borough Council said the library's wiring needed maintenance, and it may therefore move to a different part of the centre.

The Local Democracy Reporting Service reports councillor Jim Grant told a council meeting the social enterprise which runs the centre, GLL, was responsible for fixing the wiring.

"The library service is working closely with GLL," he added.

Mr Grant confirmed the library would remain at the Link Centre, even if it needed to move to a different part of the building.

Council leader Jim Robbins said no mobile library service would be provided while the centre was closed.

"It would take staff away from getting the library in the Link Centre reopened, and it would need to use the van which supplies books to vulnerable subscribers and does the inter-library transfers - so it would affect the general level of service," he said.

"We are looking at some small pop-up libraries however," he added.

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