JOBS at City Hall in Salisbury are at risk after Wiltshire Council announced it needs to cut £200,000 from the budget.

Staff at the entertainment venue have just been told of the redundancy consultation which will run until the end of September.

The city hall has a number of staff which make up 14 full-time equivalents.

In February, when the council’s budget was set, Wiltshire Council identified the £200k savings it wished to make.

Deputy leader John Thomson said the “dramatically underutilised” city hall needed to be run on a “much more commercial basis”, describing it as a “drain on the revenue of this council”.

The city hall loses £120k a year, with Wiltshire Council subsidising it by £200k annually. The council now wants it to run on a cost neutral basis enabling it to use its funding elsewhere.

Due to the ongoing consultation, it is not yet known how many jobs are at risk or in what roles.

A Wiltshire Council spokesperson said: “Although we never want to make people redundant, we have to a duty to the taxpayers of Wiltshire to ensure our services are run as efficiently as possible.

“City Hall is an important venue, one which we are committed to running into the future. However, it has been subsidised by taxpayers every year, and that is not something we can continue to do.

“We are planning to invest in the building and infrastructure to ensure City Hall has a sustainable future in Salisbury, and this is reflected in the new autumn/ winter programme we have just released.”