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‘Big risk’ to £14m cultural hub plan if residents reject controversial library move

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Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Plans for a new £14m 'cultural hub' in Stockport could be put at risk if residents say they don’t want to move the town’s library service there.

Stockport council was awarded the cash for the Merseyway project after making a successful bid to the government’s Future High Streets Fund (FHSF) last year.

A ‘precursor’ facility has been running at the One Stockport Hub since March - with the town’s historic Central Library still shut due to difficulties opening it in a Covid-safe way.

But the prospect of permanently relocating services from the Grade II-listed Carnegie library on the A6 to a new site at Adlington Walk has sparked fierce opposition in some

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