Burnham-On-Sea’s Registry Office will re-open this autumn after a five-month ‘temporary’ closure, Somerset County Council announced on Monday (August 4th).
Burnham-On-Sea.com exclusively reported in July that the office, based at Burnham and Highbridge Town Council’s chambers in Jaycroft Road (pictured), had been shut for over three months due to the absence of a key staff member through illness.
This, in turn, continues to mean that Burnham residents wanting to officially register births, deaths, adoptions and marriages have to make an appointment to visit the nearest registry office in Bridgwater.
While Somerset County Council says this is just a “temporary closure,” town councillors raised concerns about the future of the service, with Cllr Neville Jones saying it was “a very unsatisfactory situation.”
But Somerset County Council spokesman Robert Booth confirmed to Burnham-On-Sea.com on Monday (August 4th): “We intend to re-open the Burnham office in September and a firm date will be available by the middle of this month.”
“There is no intention to close the registry office.”
