The Save Our Children's Centres group are reporting that the council has deferred the decision on children's centres pending a full costing review and consultation.
The councillors voted 36 to 22 against keeping the centres unconditionally.
Also that 3 out of 9 jobs at Botanic Nursery will be kept - we are unsure what this means or who will stay and it is not yet known whether these staff will be retained to grow flowers or sell them or whether, if they are outsourcing flowers still, where they will come from. The main draw of the Botanic Nursery is that the flowers are grown locally, I believe there isn't really a market for foreign flowers being sold in this context - there are numerous chain stores where these flowers can already be appropriated and the draw of the shops in Churchtown Village near to Botanic is that they are independent local proprietors - that is what people expect and why they come.
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