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OCTOBER 18, 2010
QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY Committee Minutes from 2007 and 2008 on their acquisition of Bancroft Library now revealed:-
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SEPTEMBER 4, 2010
Save Bancroft Library Campaign Stall
St Barnabas Community Fete
Saturday 4th September
from 12-7
www.stbarnabascommunityfete.org
Launch of petition to save the Vestry Hall Reading Room
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AUGUST 12, 2010
In response to a Member's Enquiry on the section 106 funds from one of Bancroft Library's Ward Councillors, Amy Whitelock (newly elected May 2010), a response is sent by Mr Aman Dalvi, the Council's Corporate Director of Development & Renewal.
Mr Dalvi's letter to Cllr. Whitelock here.
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AUGUST 2, 2010
At a meeting of the council's Strategic Development Committee the £350,000 originally designated for Bancroft Library is now diverted into the "total contribution" of £2,093,978 for the Rich Mix Centre.
Fourteen Councillors write to the Committee to object to the Rich Mix Centre obtaining these s106 funds - including one councillor from the Bancroft ward, Cllr. Rofique Ahmed.
Their objection letter here.
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JULY 7, 2010
Cabinet agrees to take section 106 funds for the planned phase 2 (roof works) of the Bancroft Library project and put it into building a new Idea Store 'Metro' at Watney Street Market. The section 106 funds are 'planning contributions' from the Bishop's Place Towers development at 32-42 Bethnal Green Road, Planning Application PA/07/02193. Despite a council Project Initiation Document and a successful Planning Contributions Overview Panel Officers Application in February for the leaking roofs, Bancroft Library loses the £350,000.
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MAY, 2010
Cllr. Helal Abbas becomes leader of the Council and appoints Cllr. Joshua Peck Deputy Leader, Cllr. Denise Jones Lead Member - Culture and Creative Industries and Cllr. Marc Francis Lead Member - Housing, Heritage and Planning.
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MARCH 26, 2010
Public consultation on planning applications for Phase 1 ends.
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MARCH 15, 2010
Twenty-five plans, documents and drawings added to planning application:
Click to view the planning applications
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FEBRUARY 24, 2010
BANCROFT LIBRARY STEERING GROUP MEETING.
In attendance:
Members (Local History Group Representatives)
Philip Mernick - East London Historical Society
Ansar Ahmed Ullah - Swadhinata Trust
Eve Hostettler - Island History Trust
Brian Nicholson - Stepney Historical Trust
Ray Newton - History of Wapping Trust
Sigrid Werner - Friends of St Georges German Lutheran Church
Ron Osborn - Shadwell Local History Club
Jewish East End Celebration Society Representative
Stefan Dickers - Society for the Study of Labour History and the Socialist History Society
Tom Ridge, Brenda Daley, Melissa Parker - Save Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives at Bancroft Road
Council Officers
Judith St John - Head of Idea Stores and Libraries
Tamsin Bookey - Heritage Manager
Malcolm Barr-Hamilton - Borough Archivist
Architects
Kennedy O'Callaghan - Kennedy O'Callaghan Architects
Chair
Stan Newens
...Details on the meeting will be added soon.
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FEBRUARY 16, 2010
Email sent out by TAMSIN BOOKEY (LBTH officer) on the 'Phase 1' applications states that the Local History Library and Archives will be shutting down for 2 months for "...decluttering and rearrangement of the reading room...to provide more desks and seats for readers."
The 'reading room' is the Carnegie Reading Room built in 1906 after a gift from the Scottish/American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie made Bancroft Library a
Carnegie Library.
The room opposite, originally part of the Vestry Hall, was until 2006 Bancroft's Lending Library.
There is original material and background on the Library
here and original photos of both upstairs library rooms on
Bancroft Images. The history and the vision for the future of the Library is on the
Vision page.
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JANUARY 20, 2010
BANCROFT LIBRARY STEERING GROUP MEETING. A week later than scheduled, this meeting was for Members to give their responses to the Bancroft Library Project plans (see December 2009 Steering Group Meeting.) However, planning applications for Phase 1 of the Project had already gone in.
These planning applications are online at the Tower Hamlets council web site:
Click to view the planning applications
The consultation ends on MARCH 26.
Comments on PA/10/00101 can be made online:
Click to make comments
Or by email to:
dr.developmentcontrol@towerhamlets.gov.uk
or post to:
Planning
Mulberry Place (AH)
PO Box 55739
5 Clove Crescent
London E14 1BY
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