Warwickshire County Council is moving some of its offices and storage facilities in Warwick to a new modern facility on the Heathcote Industrial Estate.
Staff from the council’s current storage facility in Montague Road will move to the new facility on completion of refurbishment and fit out of the new facility.
Julian Humphreys, project and programme manager, said the facility in Hawkes Point on the Heathcote Industrial Estate had 50,000 sq. ft. of modern storage space and would cater for a wide range of services from fleet maintenance, heritage and libraries.
“The Montague Road site is well past its prime and in need of significant investment. Our need is for a modern storage facility which will deliver better value for money,” said Mr Humphreys.
Nick Evans, a director of ehB Commercial, the Leamington-based commercial property consultants, said they had been called in to find a buyer for Hawkes Point, which had been vacant for five years,
Mr Evans said the council had owned the freehold on Montague Road since the 1960s. He said the council was likely to move out completely next year and was expected to sell the facility, along with the adjacent site which was once used for a school. Both the warehouse facility and the former school are brownfield sites for residential housing and are included in the Warwick District Council Local Plan.