A library will close after a community group's bid to keep it open was rejected. 

The Friends of Bob Lawrence Library group have been campaigning to save the library, in Mollison Way, Edgware, for several months, following a Harrow Council decision to cut funding and close it down.

Campaigners were invited to submit their own business plan to keep the library open as a community-run venture, but today the group was told its application has been rejected.

A letter from Harrow Council to lead campaigner Farah Sadiq, of Beverley Drive, Edgware, stated that the group’s business plan “did not demonstrate to the panel that the Friends of Bob Lawrence Library would be able to deliver or sustain a community managed library, on the information provided”.

It went on to say that that the application did not include proof of how the income projections had been calculated, nor details of how the library would be staffed.

The library is now due to close for good at 5pm on Saturday, June 13.