Which is why there will be plenty of interest in the news that council is finally ready to start spending some money on the CBD eyesore.

The building has been allocated $200,000 in council’s draft budget for the 2016/17 financial year – which, as anyone who has had even a passing glance at the structure will understand, is just a drop in the ocean.

Still, it’s a start.

Council was always going to be in a difficult position when it came to the old TAFE building.

Refuse the NSW Government’s offer, and council was going to be accused by some of having no interest in the city’s heritage and missing an opportunity to secure a valuable piece of CBD real estate and ensure its redevelopment was sympathetic.

But accept the NSW Government’s offer and council was going to have a renovation rescue project on its hands to dwarf all others.

Further, council was going to have the eyes of the city upon it as it weighed up its options for the building.

For all those pleased to hear the old TAFE building is finally going to get some money spent on it, there will be just as many who groan to read that no formal decisions have yet been made by council on a new life for the structure.

But, really, we can’t be impatient when it comes to this project.

As Councillor Bobby Bourke points out today, the old building is not just in Bathurst’s town square, it takes up a fair chunk of the town square.

Any major change to this building will be a major change to the CBD.

Council has to get this one right.

So let’s give council the time to do so.