Library to temporarily move during £4m revamp

Leek Library will be relocated while the Nicholson Institute is refurbished

A town's library will be moved temporarily while the building its based in is refurbished this summer.

Leek Library in Leek, Staffordshire, will relocate to Moorlands House from its current base in the Grade II-listed Nicholson Institute.

It was scheduled to move towards the end of May, but the relocation was delayed after revisions were made to the programme of works on the Nicholson Institute's £4m revamp.

Catherine Mann, of Staffordshire County Council, said the authority was "delighted" to be refurbishing the library, one of 43 it currently runs.

An exact date for the library's relocation has not been confirmed but the council said it would be "later this summer".

The refurbishment has been funded through a £17.1m government grant, awarded in 2023, for town centre improvements.