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Civic Centre Extensions
Many meetings have been held during the year to discuss and plan the proposed
extensions of the Civic Centre, one part of which was given Ministry approval in principle
following a deputation to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government by members
and officers in October.
This proposal involves moving the health department to 1½ floors of a new wing
behind and to the south of the present building to allow for larger office accommodation
for all departments of the borough. Our present floor will be taken into the Borough
Treasurer's domain. Centralisation of school health work will then be possible and
will eliminate the duplication of all records and memoranda that the present inadequate
space makes necessary as the staff cannot be accommodated at the central office. It
should improve the facilities for visiting public who come to the department with questions
and complaints and have to be interviewed by the staff in an open, overcrowded office,
or have to wait their turn in an open corridor; a waiting room, inquiry office and interviewing
room are planned in the new office block.
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