What should replace the library when it closes?

There is at present no indication of Warwickshire County Council’s intentions for the library site after it closes at the end of March.

As a prelude to our work on the Parish Plan for Binley Woods, we would like to invite residents to make suggestions on what you would like to see on this site.  Please do that by adding comments below this article, by clicking the link to “Leave a Comment”.  You can do that anonymously, or you can leave your name, and even your e-mail address, as you wish.

The aim here is to take the temperature before formalising the (comprehensive) survey that will be given to all Binley Woods residents.  So this exercise is not a survey, and we’re not asking you to vote.  But we would like to see what ideas are out there.

Here are some examples to get you thinking.  You may have others:

• extend the adjacent Rugby Council sheltered housing
• a car park for sports teams and supporters using the recreation field, to relieve parking congestion
• social housing
• a high-spec detached private residential property
• a clinic / medical centre
• a small gym along the lines of Wolston’s

Please pass the message on to your friends and neighbours in Binley Woods.  You can send them an e-mail by clicking the “Share this” grey e-mail icon below.  If you’re on Facebook, you can share it with your friends on Facebook by clicking the Facebook icon.

Now please leave a comment!

Facebook Connection

This is a temporary article to show the connection to Facebook.

(Apologies if you have received this twice)

This is how it is supposed to work:

1. New articles on the the Parish Plan are added here, to the website
2. They are automatically notified by e-mail to everyone who has added their e-mail address for notifications by e-mail
3. They are also automatically notified to the Binley Woods Facebook community page
4. And then Facebook will display the notification on the Facebook news feed for everyone who has liked the Binley Woods Facebook community page

I’m trying it out because Facebook is so opaque that I want to know it works before posting a real article here on the web page.

Facebook already misled me – it offered me the service of notifying a list of people about the new Binley Woods Facebook page, and so I thought it would send invitations to like the Binley Woods page.  In fact it seems it sent out friend requests to be my (John Stanley’s) friend!  Not the same thing at all.

So I won’t be at all offended if you don’t want to be my friend on Facebook, but if you are a member of Facebook, do please consider liking the Binley Woods Facebook page, which you can do right here on the website, by clicking the Like button on the right hand side of this page, where it says “Visit us on Facebook”.  It’s not the same thing as liking an article, which you do by clicking the Facebook icon at the end of an article – you know the difference?  Of course you do!

And more important, please draw the attention of Binley Woods people you know who are mainly users of Facebook, so they can like the Binley Woods Facebook community page and be able to participate in what is going on there.  The link to our Facebook page is also on the right of this page, where it says “Visit us on Facebook”.

You will also all be on tenterhooks to find out what happens to Comments…  I don’t know yet, so I will add a comment to this article, first to find out, and then to expose my new knowledge to you.  If anyone can’t wait, then you can add a comment too.