Civic Centre Library

An idea has been floated that it is possible to find lots of money for Brent libraries by scaling back the library in the Civic Centre.  In fact this is not so.  The revenue budget for running the library will simply transfer from the old Brent Town Hall library.  The extra floor space of the new library does not transfer into higher running costs.  In terms of capital, the library is part of the wider Civic Centre project.  Asking the architects to redesign a building in the middle of building it would raise costs rather than lowering them.