Nottingham City Council has been given until the end of June to decide the future of Nottingham Castle. The board overseeing improvements at the authority has listed dozens of instructions which must be followed if it is to avoid any further Government intervention.
One of these instructions says the council must "determine the future of Nottingham Castle in line with the commercial strategy and without exposing the council to inappropriate risk", giving a deadline of June 30 for this to be complete. The Nottingham Castle Trust, which had been running the venue since its £33 million revamp, went into liquidation last November and the site has been closed ever since.
It was recently revealed the cost to the council in terms of lost income and bills to keep the building going had been £593,000 so far. Councillor Pavlos Kotsonis, the Portfolio Holder for Leisure, Culture and Planning, said at the start of the year that the Castle's reopening date would be announced by the end of January.
