TORFAEN need to save £100,000 on the library services in the 2015-2016 financial year. So they propose to move the library into the Heritage centre and the Cordell museum into the Workman’s Hall.

I questioned the cost of this move and was told on February 4 that it had not been costed. On February 25 an officer stated, in a public meeting, that Torfaen had been given a grant of £120,000 to pay for it.

On March 15 I received an e-mail stating that Torfaen had “a grant application for £103,035.65 was submitted to CyMAL on 6 February 2015. If successful this will provide 84.43 per cent of the total project cost of £120,000.”

On March 24, the cabinet agreed to go ahead with the proposed move and it will save TCBC £100,000 a year. This has left me with these questions.

1. How can an employee of the council say they have a grant of £120,000 18 days before I receive an e-mail stating they have applied for less money(£103,035.650) and it has not yet been granted?

2.Would the Blaenafon councillors have agreed to the move if they had been given the correct facts and not threatened with losing the library and museum altogether?

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Freda York , Ton Mawr Road, Blaenafon