SIR – I heartily agree with reader R Halliday regarding Shipley’s Carnegie Library (Letters, January 14).
While I am always in favour of retaining our older and much-loved buildings, I can see no future for the Carnegie due to its position and lack of parking space. Demolition would seem to be the only option.
Perhaps its best feature, the beautiful stone balcony, could be salvaged and incorporated in some future building.
The site could then better serve the community by the construction of a roundabout (the Shipley Circus?) which would facilitate a speedier flow of traffic, at present a nightmare at peak times in spite of the traffic lights.
I understand the Carnegie is not owned by the Council but in private ownership. Is this correct?
Elaine Neale, Gordon Terrace, Idle
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