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Kevin Dyson

Council executive responds to bid to block Ayrshire mental wellbeing cafe in popular park

A new report has hit back at a bid by Labour and Conservative councillors to block a wellbeing cafe in Kilmarnock’s Howard Park.

East Ayrshire Council’s depute chief executive Katie Kelly’s report to the governance and scrutiny committee this Thursday follows a call in of the community asset transfer of the Old Men’s Cabin at cabinet last month.

Kilmarnock Station Railway Heritage Trust (KSRHT) plans to turn the dilapidated Victorian building into a wellbeing cafe, with rooms for counselling people with low to moderate mental health issues.

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