Three jobs could go if Oswestry information centre closes
Three jobs could be made redundant after councillors agreed to close a visitor centre amid ongoing cuts.
Members of Shropshire Council's cabinet agreed to decommission the Mile End Visitor Information Centre at Mile End Service Area near Oswestry at a meeting yesterday.
The service will instead commission Oswestry Borderland Tourism Association at the Heritage Centre on a three-year contract to deal with enquiries from visitors by email, telephone and post – saving the council as much as £18,660.
Before the meeting, Stuart West, Shropshire Council's cabinet member for leisure and culture, said: "Mile End Visitor Information Centre has been open since 1987, and is currently run by Shropshire Council's library service.
"There are three part-time members of staff at the Centre, and all three are likely to be made redundant if these proposals are approved."
The cabinet agreed to decommission the service "as soon as possible" and that a display board would be put up at the site to signpost visitors to other sources of information.
The service currently provides services to less than 30,000 people a year– less than half of its peak figure at 76,000 in 2008.
