No plans to knock Naas library building once facility is moved

Kildare County Council says there are no plans to knock the Naas library building after the facility is transferred to Naas Town Hall.

The €5.9m project will provide a state-of-the-library which will also host a range of other cultural and educational activities.

The new building will also boast cultural and public space and will accommodate meeting rooms, exhibition, lecture and workshop spaces, hot desk facilities, printing and research supports and collections and gallery space.

Cllr Seamie Moore, who opposed moving the facility from the canal harbour, sought confirmation at a Naas Municipal District meeting that the building would not be demolished to make way for a new road exit and possibly a bridge.

KCC official Sonya Kavanagh said there is no proposal to demolish the library on the horizon.

It emerged at the meeting that a number of applications have been received by the council for possible future uses for the library.

Director of services Peter Minnock said that “a number of different proposals are emerging” for social, community and voluntary use.

However it said it will be 18 months to two years before a decision is made. Cllr Moore said that Naas and County Kildare “take its share of community and social services out of Dublin.”

He added that a rehab centre had closed recently and he suggested that some of these services are leaving the capital.