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Northamptonshire County Council is seeking to minimise its property costs by disposing of County Hall and increasing occupancy at its One Angel Square headquarters.
The council can lower its annual rental costs and generate income by sub-letting parts of One Angel Square, which welcomed staff last May, to partner organisations in order to achieve the best value for money from the building. There are now limited functions being delivered from the County Hall site, where the council chamber, coroner’s courts and tourist information centre are based.
Northamptonshire County Council sold One Angel Square earlier this year to Canada Life Investments on a 35-year leaseback arrangement, with estimates suggesting that the space made available for third party occupation in One Angel Square would generate around £500,000 per year for the authority.
Michael Clarke, cabinet member for finance, said: “Our move from 12 expensive buildings in Northampton into One Angel Square last year is already proving cost-effective and enabling us to adopt more modern ways of working. The proposed accommodation strategy will allow us to make even better use of our new headquarters.
“The building was carefully designed to enable flexible ways of working and by reconfiguring the layout, we can maximise the space available to bring partner organisations into One Angel Square, achieving closer collaboration with partners and delivering additional income for the council. At the same time, we are looking to dispose of the County Hall site which was once our democratic hub and is now hugely under-utilised. The imminent transformation of local government in Northamptonshire offers us an opportunity to review the use of the site and look at alternative venues for full council meetings.”
Sue Robb of 4Children talks to Julie Laughton and Alison Britton from the Department for Education about the role of childminders in delivering the 30 hours free entitlement.
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