The health authority in charge of Lubetkin’s threatened Finsbury Health Centre is expected to make a decision on its future in July.

An Islington Council report on the future of the north London facility will be presented to the NHS Islington board this Thursday. The board, which meets every two months, is then expected to give its decision at its next meeting on July 22.

Martin Klute, the chairman of the council’s health and wellbeing committee, will present the report, which recommends the building be retained as a health centre.

But the health authority says it will cost too much money to overhaul the crumbling centre and is proposing to disperse its services across the borough, raising fears the building will fall into a worse state of repair.

The last major maintenance project on the 1938 building was carried out 16 years ago by Avanti Architects.

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