DIDCOT’S Citizens’ Advice Bureau will be made homeless as part of the £1.3m renovation of the town’s Civic Hall.
Town councillors have decided to serve an eviction notice to the service, which has been based at the hall since it was built in the 1980s.
The service will move out when building work starts in August, and will have no space allocated to it when the project is completed.
Manager Judith Abela said she was extremely concerned about the service’s future.
She said: “It leaves us in an extremely difficult position and a very tight timescale to find an alternative.”
Mrs Abela had wanted the bureau to get more space in the redevelopment.
But the Conservative-run town council decided a redesign would be too expensive and take too long.
The council’s finance and general purposes committee voted to offer to lease a patch of land next to the hall to the bureau at a peppercorn rent, if it could find the money to build new offices.
But Mrs Abela said building new premises was a long-term fundraising project, and not easily achieved.
Council leader Bill Service said: “We felt that for them to move out during building work and then move back in to smaller premises than they have now was the worst option.
“Their preferred option is to move out completely and to build their own place.”
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