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Walsall Council bosses will press on with their plans to sell the Leather Museum despite pleas from the community.

On September 24, cabinet members approved plans to sell the Littleton Street West building to Walsall College to move its SEND offering from the Hawbush campus to the main town centre campus.

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Cabinet members also approved plans to buy a new building in the new town centre building for a ‘new and improved’ museum offer.

The decision was called in by five Labour councillors to be scrutinised at a public meeting which took place on Tuesday, October 15.

Councillor Klara Margetts, speaking on behalf of the five councillors, said: “The current cabinet decision to push on with this

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