The Existing Town Hall and the Municipal Building
It was originally built in three stages: Town Hall, Municipal building, and then the Civil Defence building
The Town hall sits behind the two front buildings, they face onto the town square and Chapel Street.
The Town hall is beyond strengthening. It needs to be removed. Cost? Approximately $150,000.
This would leave the two buildings that have the classical facade.
These two remaining assets, the Municipal building and the Civil Defence building should be strengthened, and can be, for approximately $1.5M
These buildings could easily be leased to give the council a good ongoing return in the neighbourhood of $300,000 pa.
Or, the council could make excellent use of them. The ‘I Site’ could be situated there, opening out onto the square. It could provide the perfect place for the archives and office space for council staffthis would save thousands of dollars by no longer having to lease Queen Street offices.
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