THE proposed changes to library services in Devon have been given a cautious welcome by Exeter councillors.
At last week's cabinet meeting, Roger Croad, Devon's cabinet member with responsibility for libraries, went out of his way to say that there were no plans to close any of the county's 50 libraries.
The county council is proposing setting up trust/mutual status for the whole library service, which would give people greater opportunity to get involved in the way their local library is run, so it meets their own community's needs.
There would be paid staff as well as volunteers.
At the cabinet meeting, Richard Westlake, county councillor for Newtown and Polsloe, said that he gave the proposals a 'cautious welcome' and said he was pleased that there had been a lot of consultation of the proposals and that notice appeared to have been taken of what the public said.
He added that he was pleased that the county council appreciated that both Pinhoe and St Thomas had been recognised as areas where there would be population growth.
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