Below are two very different statements from Irwell Valley Housing Association:
“We decided last Monday to take over the local library and run it. We are going to spend £30,000 on the library because we have listened to the community of Haughton Green”.
Tom Manion, Chief Executive, IVHA; Tameside Advertiser, 29thNovember 2012.
"The library is not going to be a library anymore. It's going to be a bit of music, bit of drama, a bit of performing arts and the idea being that a group of young people can come together and they can set up their own business..........."
Martine Fairclough, Social Enterprise Manager, IVHA, 28th June 2013.
Not once in her interview did Martine Fairclough mention the Friends Of Haughton Green Library, or any of the volunteers who have worked so hard over the last few months to get the library ready, or indeed make any reference to Irwell Valley's earlier claim to have "listened to the community".
Please click on the link below to hear the entire Martine Fairclough interview:
So are Irwell Valley Housing Association going to restore the Haughton Green Library to the local community as Tom Manion promised? Or are the 1500 residents who signed the petition to SAVE HAUGHTON GREEN LIBRARY going to be let down once again?
Carl Simmons
Denton South Independent
9th November 2013
Artwork on what was known as the (Haughton Green Library) - The artwork/graffiti depicts a sunset scene somewhere in the caribbean on shutters is skilfully done, however as it suppose to be a Library, it says nothing about what is going on in the building? However..The sign on the building (Oasis Read & Rock) is very bad! With it's clashing colours, it is difficult to read, The design is brash and very cheap looking, not inviting at all! Regarding the artwork on the sign, I would say, it is something you would find on a school textbook, this is not the work of a professional sign writer! From the outside Oasis Read and Rock has now black out windows where you can not see any visual display of books at all, looking in from the outside I would never know that the (Oasis Read and Rock) is a library? This makes me a little suspicious to why this is no longer evident?
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