A TEN-year-old girl plans to tell Barnet’s Cabinet members why they should save her library from closure next week.

Hannah Andrusier and her twin brother, Oscar, visit Friern Barnet library every week and are desperate for Barnet Council to reject plans to move it into the artsdepot, nearly two miles away.

Hannah has already submitted a question ready for Tuesday’s cabinet meeting, where councillors will decide the library’s fate.

Her question reads: “You say that children are at the heart of your library strategy and that you want more children to visit the library at least three times a year.

"At the moment, I visit the library at least three times a week after school. This would be impossible if the library was at the artsdepot and all the children in my class say the same.

“How does taking away our library increase reading, literacy and learning opportunities for children in Friern Barnet? Why do the children of Friern Barnet not matter?”

The twins, from Friern Barnet, go to Holly Park Primary School in Bellevue Road and walk to the library either on their own or with friends after school.

Oscar said: “If it moved to the artsdepot I would simply not be able to go as it would not be within comfortable walking distance of my house. I wouldn’t be allowed to go trudging along the main road.

“All the people I know use the library. I actually can’t accept they could be a Friern Barnet without it – I find it impossible to imagine.

“The council wants to make a landmark library – well we already have one. To move it to the artsdepot where it will be invisible and no one will be able to get to it is just wrong.”