Civic Centre, Trowbridge
The Civic Centre in Trowbridge will be offered to the NHS as a coronavirus vaccination venue.
An extraordinary meeting of Trowbridge Town Council tonight, councillors agreed to delegate authority to the town clerk in consultation with the council leader to contract out the Civic Centre for use as a vaccination site.
The original motion proposed by the leader of the town’s Conservative group, Antonio Piazza and seconded by Cllr Thomas Bazan.
Despite many councillors agreeing with the original motion and supporting it on social media, not all were pleased.
However, Cllr Geoff Whiffen said “compassion is overruling logic” adding the council did not know how long the Covid crisis would last and asked members if they were “prepared to write an open-ended cheque”.