It's being recommended that the council should stop running five city libraries including Cobbett Road in Bitterne Park, by March 31, 2016 following the libraries consultation process.
• Cobbett Road Library: 'What was the purpose of the huge consultation?'
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The recommendation following the library consultation process which will go to the council's Cabinet on August 18 for a probable decision, is to “cease to provide a Council managed Library Service from Cobbett Road Library, Burgess Road Library, Millbrook Library, Thornhill Library, Weston Library, and the Mobile Library by March 31, 2016.”
See also: Cobbett Road Library: 'What was the purpose of the huge consultation?' - Chair of library Friends group interviewed
August council meetings discussing libraries held in public at Civic Centre
Overview & Scrutiny Committee - Aug 13, 5.30pm | Cabinet - Aug 18, 4.30pm
Use the players below to hear what protesters said in March about library closures...
and what was said at, and after, the packed public meeting in February at the Ascension Centre when people came together to try to find an alternative to closure.