The fate of a much-loved community centre in L8 will be decided as a row over a new school rumbles on.
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00:00The fate of a much-loved community centre in L8 will be decided as a row over a new school rumbles on.
00:08After a committee meeting last week in which Liverpool Council was told to apologise for its handling of the case,
00:14the authority's cabinet will make a final decision on the future of the African Caribbean centre.
00:18Last month, board members at the centre on Upper Parliament Street reacted angrily after it was revealed.
00:24The City Council selected the area around the site as part of parcels of land it had earmarked for the construction of a new school.
00:31With a critical position looming next year in terms of the amount of school places being provided across Liverpool,
00:37the council said it could use the land occupied by the centre, which has stood for decades, to deliver education in the coming years.
00:45The City Council's cabinet will now be asked to make a final decision on the site and the future of the centre
00:51after it was recommended by members of the Culture and Economy Scrutiny Committee that executive members look again at the scheme.
00:59According to the City Council, 19 sites were assessed for their viability before the location was chosen.
01:05The board of the African Caribbean centre has written to the local authority seeking assurances the centre will be allowed to stay on its full existing site as an independent centre.
01:15Members of the committee voted unanimously to send the decision back to cabinet for reconsideration along with four recommendations.
01:22Among them was the suggestion the African Caribbean centre should remain on the site and how the decision contradicts its own terms.
01:29Members also said a consultation should be launched in conjunction with the community and the cabinet should apologise on its own engagement to date.
01:38As a result, the cabinet will go over the proposals when it meets next week and make a final decision.
01:45.