Folkestone Library
Many people are aware that Folkestone was recently voted the best place to live in the south east in the Sunday Times. So it is a disgrace that a thriving town the size and status of Folkestone does not have a functioning library for the benefit of all. The temporary ‘digital’ replacement building on Grace Hill is utterly inadequate. Folkestone is the only town in the country to have a central library with no books!
Reform UK policy:
The Council should either engage assertively with local building contractors and find a way to make the roof of the original Grace Hill building waterproof. If the cost of this is proven beyond any reasonable doubt to be unjustifiable then an alternative location should be located without delay. It is not as if there is a shortage of empty viable premises – Debenhams, Wilko, Store Twenty One and the old Job Centre amongst others.