TVBC cabinet votes for Romsey office sell-off

10:19am Friday 22nd June 2012 in News

Test Valley Borough Council cabinet members have voted unanimously to sell off the authority’s Duttons Road offices in Romsey and move some staff to a customer services unit at the former magistrates building in the town.

The cost-cutting proposal will mean around 65 staff will have to relocate to TVBC’s Beech Hurst office at Andover Watched by angry members of staff union, Unison, wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the message ‘We’d rather be in Romsey’, the five cabinet members present, none representing wards in the south of the borough, agreed the controversial plan on Wednesday evening.

The proposal will now go before the full council today (Friday) at a special meeting at Duttons Road, from 5pm.

For more on this story, see this week's Romsey Advertiser.

Comments(4)

Bartat says...
10:39am Fri 22 Jun 12

All the more reason to get rid of TVBC altogether and let the Town Council run Romsey, contracting services in. The rift between Northern and Southern Councillors has been there ever since the damned Council was formed. Time to remove this ridiculous layer of Government for ever, IMHO !!!

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ho-hum says...
9:37am Sat 23 Jun 12

I wonder if we might be better off joining with Eastleigh. The Romsey area will be considered the poor relation of TVBC.

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Romsey Constituent says...
10:00am Sat 23 Jun 12

Cornwall appears to survive,having removed the entire layer of Borough Councils some years ago.

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Bartat says...
10:26pm Sat 23 Jun 12

Ho-Hum - I can assure you Carr and his northern cronies ALWAYS HAS considered the Romsey area as the poor relation of his TVBC. Romsey Rapids was the last decent deal we got from TVBC; that was 23 years ago and is in dire need of a facelift now! Maybe it's the price we pay for voting too many argumentative Lib Dem Councillors onto his Council !!!

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