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BBC News
20-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Peterborough City Council suggests new site for dementia centre
A new location has been proposed for a city's dementia resource centre after concerns were raised about plans to move it into a City Council is selling the building where the centre is currently based, on Lincoln Road in originally proposed moving the centre to Bretton Library but now says it is looking at a relocation to Paston Farm Community Qayyum, the council's cabinet member for public health and adult social care, said: "We know there were concerns about the prospect of a move to Bretton Library, including parking arrangements and noise levels at this location." She said the council had been working with the Alzheimer's Society, which runs the centre, to find other possible sites."Paston Farm Community Centre has recently become available and we believe it would make an ideal location," she said. The proposed move to Bretton proved unpopular with some library users, who raised concerns about the impact on library activities if space was the plans, the library would have occupied about two-thirds of its current space, with the rest going to the dementia current dementia centre building is one of several properties the council is selling off to plug a black hole in its finances, although a deal to sell the building fell through earlier this council said this gave it a chance to reassess its options for the service, and look at alternative locations to the authority said Paston Farm Community Centre offered a good amount of space and facilities such as a cafe, social space, group rooms and council said the move was not finalised, but that residents would be kept up to speed on its progress. Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
19-02-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Bretton Library dementia resource centre idea moves a step closer
A council plan to set up a dementia resource centre in a library has moved a step closer to City Council is selling a building which currently houses the centre and wants to set up a service at a library in the of the council's planning committee have approved a change of use, which would allow such a centre to be set up at Bretton Library. Library users, and people working with dementia sufferers, have raised concerns about the idea. Members of the council's planning and environmental protection committee were on Tuesday asked to decide whether approving a change of use was appropriate under planning officers had recommended that a change of use should be members did not decide on the rights or wrongs of setting up a dementia centre in the library - or dismiss health concerns raised by people working with dementia woman who works as a volunteer with dementia sufferers said the library was not the right setting for a resource said dementia sufferers could have library users have said library activities would be under threat if space was reduced. Paula Flood, who runs a "Knit and Natter" group at the library, is campaigning against the dementia centre plan and said the fight would continue."They've just approved a change of use. It's just one hurdle," she said."The fight's not over yet. We will continue with the campaign." No party has overall control of Peterborough City Council, although Labour has the most Qayyum, the council's Labour cabinet member for adults and health, has said both the library and dementia resource centre are "important community facilities".She said the council wanted to ensure that space was being used in the "best possible way" and the "best services possible" were being dementia resource centre gives advice, information and support to people, and is currently based in a council-owned building on York Road. Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
