Council building closures since 2010

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Dear Newcastle upon Tyne City Council,

Please kindly provide a list of council-run buildings (including Libraries, Day Care Centres, Community Centres, Schools and Administrative bases) which your Council has had to close since 2010. Please provide the name of the buildings and the postcodes of the buildings.

Such closures would include those where people have to seek the same type of service from a different location* which already exists (or maybe there is no alternative available). * If there are any scenarios where a service provision is not closed but relocated across the road to another council building I don't require information on that.

I require the list to include buildings closed and disposed plus buildings that are re-let following service closures.

I'm only interested however in the buildings in which you provided a service that you were forced to close due to Government cuts to your budget making it no longer financially viable for you to keep such buildings open.

The reason why I require this information is to get a picture of the effect of any Government cuts to council budgets which in turn is forcing councils to find ways to make savings.

In order to assist the request here is the relevant information from other councils. Please note however I require the postcode besides the name of the buildings if possible:
Example 1 Lancashire Council (pdf file) http://freepdfhosting.com/4f28e56539.pdf
Example 2 Lincolnshire Council (excel file) https://d.pr/14FZr
Example 3 Oxfordshire Council (pdf file) http://freepdfhosting.com/fded63aff2.pdf
Example 4 Herefordshire Council (pdf file) http://freepdfhosting.com/17818cf345.pdf
Example 5 Suffolk Council (excel file) https://d.pr/117FU
Example 6 Milton Keynes Council (pdf file) http://freepdfhosting.com/6c6384a655.pdf
Example 7 Dorset Council (excel file) https://d.pr/1dQAS

Yours faithfully,

Lee Jefferson

Freedom Of Information Requests Mailbox, Newcastle upon Tyne City Council

Reference: FOI 10913

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Jensen, Nina, Newcastle upon Tyne City Council

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Dear Mr Jefferson

Please see attached response to your FOI.

Kind regards

Nina

Nina Jensen
Portfolio Manager
Property and Asset Management
Newcastle City Council
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Dear Jensen, Nina,

Thanks very much indeed for the information. I have asked this of every council in the UK and while I'm grateful for their responses with information I'm delighted that you've offered to produce this in a different format for me - that's extremely kind. I'm very happy with the information in the format you have presented it in.

Thanks again.

Yours sincerely,

Lee Jefferson.