The paint colour for the lift extension has now been agreed, you can see it by clicking here.

The case officer believes that it is a colour that would go well with the stone and render and is a significant improvement from the white. The trim around the door and glazing will also be painted that colour.

A formal discharge of Listed Building consent needs to be made by other parties.  The contractors state they wish to go ahead next week so we should hopefully see the long-awaited lift in action before too long. As soon as we get a completion date we shall post it up.

Headington Library lift

A meeting was held on Wednesday between the City Council and the agent for the County Council about the external appearance of the Library lift extension. The application is a white self-coloured render that does not fit well with the palette of the library, which is a mix of honey/near honey and ‘dirtied honey’ and greyish tones.

Two possible options were identified: to re-render or to paint over. The agent is finding out technical details about whether another covering of paint would ‘stick’.

Five sample panels of render will be delivered to the site on hardboard so can be moved around the extension and a further meeting will be arranged next week.

The colour of the angles to seal the gap around the lift will be coloured to match that of the lift.

We are assured that the work will be completed as quickly as possible, once the decision on render vs paint has been made, and we will be pushing hard for a minimum of delay.

The County Librarian has written the following today:

We are sorry to announce that a delay to the building works means that Headington library will now be closed from Monday 23rd June 2014 until Saturday 12th July 2014. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

The Grand Opening will now be on Monday 14th July when we will stay open until 5.00pm instead of closing at our usual time of 1.00pm.