PLANS to limit the number of commercial events held at Clydebank Town Hall will go before councillors next week.

The proposals – coming just two years after council bosses were told to focus on commercial event bookings to stem losses at the venue – would see the facility play host to around 15 wedding receptions each year, along with a small number of dance shows.

The plans also include continuing to use the town hall for Clydebank Musical Society’s biannual performances.

A report prepared for the culture committee at West Dunbartonshire Council (WDC) states that cutting the number of commercial events would result in extra costs to the local authority of £40,000 during the next financial year.

The plans have been set out after councillors approved a £950,000 refurbishment of the building in February “to make it a place the people of Clydebank could be proud of”.

Earlier this year the same committee voted to stop taking bookings for wedding receptions and other commercial events at the town hall until all those planned refurbishment works were complete, or until December 31.

But the report warns that “there is a risk that refurbishment works could continue into January 2022”.

A separate report, prepared for the same committee meeting on November 29, states that the building – which is closed to the public for those works, and has been shut since the first Covid lockdown in March 2020 – should return to pre-pandemic opening hours when it reopens, and that opening on Sundays should not be considered for at least another six months after the doors are opened again.