WORK to construct a new village hall for Berryfield has now begun.
The new village hall, located on Telford Drive in the new Bowood View housing development, will replace the hall currently based on Berryfield Park.
Chair of Melksham Without Parish Council, cllr John Glover, told Melksham News, “We are excited to see work begin on site – the development has been long in the planning and delayed, so now we are extremely excited that it’s started.”
Construction is expected to end in August and it is hoped that the hall will be open by the autumn.
The parish council will support a new management committee to apply for grants and funding to provide the ‘standalone’ facilities for the interior of the hall.
Construction of the village hall was intended to start last year in September but parish councillors say this was scuppered by a delay caused by the housing developers, Bellway – who are responsible for the Bowood View development, comprising 150 houses.
According to the parish council, Bellway had failed to action a legal agreement, made five years ago, to hand over ownership of the land earmarked for the new hall, to the council. Without the land transfer, the parish council were unable to legally proceed with works on the land.
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