Campaigners opposed to current plans to re-develop the Museum of Free Derry have called on the Bloody Sunday Trust to hold meeting to “implement the wishes of the community.”
The call is contained in correspondence delivered to the Trust by Vincent Coyle, who is at the forefront of the campaign.
The move follows a heated public meeting on Friday night last which heard objections to the £2.2 million extension to the museum in Glenfada Park.
The objectors claimed the plans would see part of the new museum obscure a large civil rights mural in Glenfada Park and the removal of a ramp where one of the victims was shot dead.
The meeting, attended by a number of relatives of those shot dead by British paratroopers in January 1972 and reprsentatives of the Trust, was convened by Mr Coyle who told those present the current plans had been radically changed since the first plans were unveiled in July 2010.
Julie Anne Campbell, the newly appointed chairperson of the Bloody Sunday Trust, told the meeting there had been no change in the plans and the image from 2010 had simply been one of the options put forward.
She added the Trust could go back to the Housing Executive and see if an alternative plan could be drawn up but warned it could jeopardise the future of the Museum of Free Derry.
Ms Campbell said the Trust would meet with anyone with an interest in the matter to discuss the plans further.
Speaking as he handed in a letter to the Museum, Mr Coyle said the local community had spoken “loud and clear” at the meeting.
He added: “We fully support the museum plans, but we want the plans that were consulted on and advertised by the Museum in July 2010 which does not obstruct the Civil Rights mural and does not affect the current ramp way.
“The Bogside is a living, breathing museum and we must do all we can to preserve every aspect of our history, that is our aim and we look forward to meeting the Trust to progress how the will of the community can be brought to fruition.”