PLANNING permission has been granted for a new library and council services “one stop-shop” in the centre of Runcorn designed by North West architectural practice, Cassidy and Ashton.
The £550,000 scheme to transform Runcorn’s former indoor market hall into a spacious open plan library will start in October, with completion scheduled for March 2012.
The building will be home both to Halton Library Services and Halton Direct Link, providing public access to the library’s lending and reference collections, computer facilities and a gateway for council services.
Toby Southgate, associate director from Cassidy and Ashton, said: “The old indoor market is a landmark building in Runcorn and it is very appropriate that it should be reinvented.”
