A former Northumberland police station has been put up for sale for £3.25m, complete with planning permission to give it a new lease of life.
The Castle Bank police station in Morpeth was sold off in 2015 in a bid to cut costs from Northumbria Police’s budget, and the site has lain empty ever since.
Plans were submitted to Northumberland County Council in August 2017 to turn the site into a new housing estate, creating 32 residential properties on the town centre site.
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The proposals included plans to refurbish the old station, together with garages and stables, to provide six houses, while workshops and former police houses and properties would have been demolished to make way for seven further houses and 19 apartments.
Now estate agent Bradley Hall is marketing the development, which it says has been designed to retain the functional relationship between the police station and Morpeth Court House.
Neil Hart, group managing director at Bradley Hall, said the scheme would encourage the effective reuse of a brownfield site. He added that the development comes to market during a time of significant redevelopment and investment for the market town, as plans for the multimillion-pound development of the town’s leisure centre have also been announced.
He said: “This development offers an extremely rare opportunity to deliver high quality houses and apartments within Morpeth town centre.
“The site benefits from planning permission for 32 dwellings in a mix of high quality houses and apartments. These homes could be ideally suited to the discerning family purchaser or downsizers looking to relocate to this prominent town centre location.
“This is, arguably, the most exciting scheme to come forward in Morpeth in decades.”
