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Brunch restaurant planned in historic Carnegie Library in Crosby
An historic Grade II-listed building in Merseyside is one step closer to reopening, more than 12 years after the doors were Library, on College Road, Crosby, has been vacant since being closed down by Sefton Council in 2013 as part of a "libraries review" and in an effort to save Thursday, Brunch chain Moose Coffee confirmed it had completed the next step in its bid to take over part of the library building, by submitting an application to sell alcohol on the premises every day between 09:00-23: submitted a planning application to Sefton Council in December 2022, stating, at the time, that it was "desperate to see the library returned to its former glory".
The planning application, spearheaded by landlord Cunard Construction Ltd, said the work will include "minor internal alterations" to provide space to be used as an office, a co-working office with meeting space, and a family restaurant."Internal heritage features will be retained and restored where possible and will be used to inform interior design choices throughout the development," the application added that the hope is to bring the interior to "a modern contemporary quality" while highlighting the building's "historical nature", according to the Local Democracy Reporting Carnegie Library was opened in 1905, and is one of 2,509 libraries across the world built between 1883-1929 with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew was originally one of 660 Carnegie libraries in the UK and Ireland.
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