The Blandford Blog

The County Council have applied to the lottery for £1.9 million to help build a state of the art library for Blandford.

If they get the grant it will go towards building a brand new library on their site in west street. This will replace the rather cramped library in The Tabernacle.

For me it will mean a 15 minute walk to the library, instead of the current two minute walk. The will be no hardship and if we get a better library then it will be worth it.

According to the council, the new library will have every facility a library could want. But it all depends on getting the grant from the lottery.

Don’t hold your breath, the site on west street is a patch of waste ground that has had a sign on it saying “Site of the new Blandford Library” since 1998. Nothing has been done to the site in ten years