Cllr Matthew Brown Leader of Preston City Council at the Guild Hall Preston - pictured in 2023 inside the venue The leader of Preston City Council has been
Reputational damage to Preston City Council over Guild Hall saga ‘pretty serious’Preston City Council savings depend on how interest rates affect Animate borrowing plansCllr Matthew Brown Leader of Preston City Council at the Guild Hall Preston – pictured in 2023 inside the venue
That decision was taken under the previous leader, the late Peter Rankin. Obviously I was in the cabinet but he had the lead for economic development at the time. My own view is we need to be doing a lot more ourselves as an authority, which you see now. And that building had been a disused asset for some time and it did seem like a reasonable opportunity.
Ideally I’d like to run it back in house, but we’re going to need a lot more money to do that. One option we do have is whether we can attract Arts Council funding because venues generally make a loss and venues of that era make a bigger loss. We really do care, within this Labour council, we do want to get that back as soon as we can. We just can’t do everything all at once and some of the constraints that are put in by central government make that really difficult.
I think the fact we’re actually owning the thing is really important. There’s 340 people working on it and there’s targets to make sure a certain number of them are from the local area. It matters to them that we’re doing this. I think we have to look at trends and people are buying things online a lot more. The reality is that the kind of economy we want to see, as well as it being fairer and more equal, what we need is a place for creativity and expression.
If somebody with impressive hospitality credentials came in and was interested, is that something you’d look at? Is it challenging to offer strong opinions like that given you are elected for both Preston City and Lancashire County Council? But they’re facing huge cuts as well from a centralised Conservative government that doesn’t fund them properly. No. I think a lot of it is, we have to work within government envelopes. The levelling up scheme, for example, things have to be done that quickly. You’ve got to make decisions quickly in terms of bidding for things and then delivering things. I understand there’s been very strong views with Ashton Park and before that with the Tram Bridge. We’re not trying to subvert democracy.
We’ve got businesses, like the Mandala Centre, which have become owned by the workers and so that’s 10 or 15 women that are guaranteed a wage of £17 per hour. We’re looking to make a provision within our budget for that. Deputy leader Martyn Rawlinson is basically going to make sure that over the next few years we will actually get to a situation where we’ll be fully-funded. Last time we put in around £2 million, and we’re looking to put in a similar amount for 2032. We’ll also look to attract other funding, from the government, business sponsorship and the rest of it.
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