Central library to be demolished to make way for college.
Plans to demolish a library to make way for a £17 million sixth form college have been approved by council bosses.
Barnsley Central Library will be demolished and the service relocated as part of regeneration plans for the town centre.
More than 13,000 campaigners signed petitions against Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council’s proposals to flatten the Shambles Street library.
But cabinet members approved the plans on Wednesday.
Barnsley College will pay for their new site with a £5.3m government grant and the scheme should be finished by the end of 2015.
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