People in Gedling village are being given the chance to help decide the fate of a building that used to house a popular youth centre.
The Old Station, off Shearing Hill, was home to Gedling Youth Centre for many years, but after the club stopped using the building several years ago, it has remained empty.
Now a meeting is being held to give local residents a chance to have a say about where its future lies.
Rick Wilson, chairman of Gedling Village Preservation Society, has helped organise next week’s meeting.
He said: “The purpose of the meeting is to find a consensus of local feeling as to what might be done with the building and the site taking into account the legal requirements outlined when the original trust was set up to run the youth club. The assets of this centre should remain for the benefit of the local community.”
The meeting will be held on Friday, May 6, at Gedling Memorial Hall, in Main Street, at 7.30pm
The building should be kept, far too many aspects of our country’s heritage is disappearing and for something quite local, it should be kept as reminder of how important the local railway line was to/from the coal pits.
Perhaps get the Nottingham tram system expanded along the old rail track to service Colwick, Netherfield & Gedling and make this a tram stop. The buildings would make a great small health/fitness centre and/or meeting place for local groups and clubs with a coffee shop attached.
The bullding is in a very poor state of repair. the position of the building and the internal layout is not conducive to be easily used. The rooms are very small and are not really practicable. As the building belongs to the people of gedling my view is that the land being a large plot should be sold off as development land and the money used to go towards a new community centre to be used by Gedling Village for community activities. This could be the
Gedling Country Park or even On the Lambley Lane playing Fields.
We as a local railway history group think this site is of high historical importance and would welcome its preservation in some way