Police buildings 206/24
FOI Reference: 206/2024
Request:
For each of the last ten calendar years (January 1st 2014 31st December 2023):
Q1) How many police buildings (and or land) have been sold? Please list them (and advise what they were previously used for, for example if they were a police station or land used for car storage) and advise how much they were sold for. If land only, please advise the size.
Q2) What buildings or land owned by the Force are currently up for sale? Please provide a list.
Q3) Broadly, of the funds raised, what has this money been used for?
Response:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:
Question 1
A total of eleven (11) buildings were sold over the time period, as per the table below.
No ‘land only sites’ were disposed.
|
Police Stations |
Year of sale |
Sale price achieved (£) |
|
Carmarthen Police Station, Friar's Park |
2019 |
1,750,000 |
|
Felinfoel |
2018 |
111,154 |
|
Llandrindod Wells |
2014 |
172,000 |
|
Llanfair Caereinion |
2018 |
33,000 |
|
Neyland |
2018 |
90,000 |
|
St Clears |
2018 |
30,000 |
|
St David's |
2019 |
220,000 |
|
Knighton |
2022 |
162,000 |
|
Milford Haven |
2023 |
220,520 |
|
Police Houses |
Year of sale |
Sale price achieved (£) |
|
Police House - Heol Tyn y Fron, Aberystwyth |
2019 |
152,000 |
|
Police House - Stokes Avenue, Haverfordwest |
2017 |
80,000 |
Question 2
We currently only have one site for sale, but a sale has been agreed and will soon be completed, as follows:
Partial sale of Llanelli Town Centre Police Station bordering Waunlanyrafon and Old Castle Road.
Question 3
Capital Receipts from the sale of properties is held in Central Reserves. This is then used, as agreed through the Force Governance Structure, for wider Policing needs - including re-investment in the Estate.
(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 28/02/24)