Spa Pavillion, Felixstowe.

The decision to withdraw funding from the Spa in June and seek private operators to run the venue is set to be looked at again.

The future of the venue is hanging in the balance after it was announced last month that the council would withdraw funding from the Spa in June.

But Suffolk Coastal’s cabinet are now due to look at the decision again after the council’s scrutiny committee called for the building to remain open until January next year.

Geoff Holdcroft, cabinet member for economic development and leisure, said: “Cabinet will of course listen to what Scrutiny said but much of it centred on the issue of timing, on when our contract with its managers should end, a decision that may not even be in our hands, as the meeting heard Openwide Coastal confirm it will not run the theatre if it was losing it money.

“My view is that we have to take decisions that will deliver a long-term future for the Spa and I hope that in February we can confirm the way forward”

The scrutiny committee met on January 12 and the cabinet will discuss what can be done at a meeting on February 7.