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Search the Public Notice PortalPrestwich Library will close its doors for the last time today as it prepares to temporarily shut and relocate amid the town's Longfield Centre redevelopment.
The £100 million Prestwich Village regeneration scheme is already progressing, and the new £14 million travel hub construction is well-underway.
Once complete, the project will lead to a 301-space car park, a new market and a new library, as well as more than 200 homes in the heart of the town centre.
The regeneration works require the library to move out of its current home so the Longfield Shopping Centre can be demolished.
It will shut from 4.30pm on Friday (March 13) before relocating to the town's Phoenix Centre temporarily.
The Phoenix Centre is located within the accessible St Mary's Park, near other community facilities and with good transport links.
Bury Council is working with nationwide placemaker Muse to regenerate Prestwich Village, and in the future, a new, larger library will be built, alongside a community space.
This means the current library will close for a period while adaptation works are carried out at the Phoenix Centre, and while library staff pack everything up and unpack it in the new location.
It will reopen at the Phoenix Centre by the end of April this year, with the exact reopening date to be confirmed nearer the time.
Jackie Veal, head of wellness and culture at Bury Council, said: “We are grateful for everyone’s patience while the interim library space is prepared. We look forward to welcoming all our members to the Phoenix Centre as soon as we reopen.”
A range of measures will be put in place to support customers during the closure period, including a date extension for the return of borrowed books and suspension of fines for a time-limited period.
It comes after the council appointed the contractor to demolish the Longfield Centre.
During a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, March 11, town hall boss Eamonn O’Brien said: “I’m pleased to say that we have an appointed operator and crucially that they’re able to start on site pretty quickly, which is essential if we are to make a start on the [next phases] of the plans."
Work is expected to begin by the end of the month and is due to last until mid-June.
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