Festival Hall offices to undergo refurbishment

Alderley Edge Parish Council has decided to press ahead with plans to refurbish the office area at the Festival Hall.

Currently the Parish Clerk, Anne Ross has an office upstairs at the front of the hall, next to the council chamber, and the Hall Manager Ashley Comiskey-Dawson has an office at the back of the stage.

Both offices are rather scruffy and the Clerk's office will be replaced once the new Medical Centre is built at the front of the hall.

Cllr Duncan Herald explained "We have decided to improve the Hall Manager's office, to fit in both he and the Clerk. The room has to be subdivided and have electrical work done.

"The Parish Council always intended to update and refurbish the Festival Hall because, in our opinion, the ex-owners of the hall (Macclesfield Borough Council) had not done a good enough job of maintaining the hall.

"However the provision of a new Medical Centre has always been a priority over hall works and until the Parish Council had a full understanding of the works involved in errecting a new medical centre, we are not willing to carry out structural work on the hall - in case, in the light of medical centre work, we had to re-do the hall structural work."

The existing office space at the rear of the Festival Hall will have a partition wall added to create two separate offices. Ashley Comiskey-Dawson and PCSO Jim Newns will use one part and Anne Ross will work in the other half. Radiators will also be changed, along with the lights and the scattered shelves, of various sizes, will be replaced with a new shelving unit.

Having received an estimate of £1825 to do the required work, the Parish Council agreed at last week's meeting to get the work done.

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