THE multi-million pound sale of the former headquarters of Gloucestershire Constabulary will be signed-off by the county’s police and crime commissioner (PCC) today.
Holland House in Cheltenham, will be sold to housebuilding firm CALA Homes for £7,150,000 plus an additional £100,000 should the company secure planning permission for redevelopment of the site.
Most of the paperwork enabling the sale of the Lansdown Road building to CALA Homes has been completed and is due to be completed by PCC Martin Surl today.
Mr Surl said: “This has been on the constabulary’s agenda for more than a decade but due to circumstances, many of them outside their control, it has taken longer to achieve than first envisaged.
“Unravelling plans that were going nowhere and sorting out the police estate was among my first objectives.
“Selling now represents a good deal for council tax payers and with most of the money re-invested in the new investigative centre, Prism House, and custody facility, Compass House, it means a more suitable working environment for staff who have re-located”.
The site was replaced by a new headquarters at Waterwells, Quedgeley ten years ago.
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