Courts: Sales
(asked on 4th July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he made of the value of each court that his Department intended to sell prior to each sale.
The table below provides a list of the estimated value of courts which have now been sold.
Property | Estimated Value | Sale Value |
Abergavenny Magistrates’ Court | 499,681 | 499,809 |
Bow County Court | 2,800,000 | 3,500,000 |
Bracknell Magistrates' Court | Information not held | 1,000,001 |
Brecon Law Court | 575,000 | 575,000 |
Bridgend Magistrates’ Court | 320,000 | 375,000 |
Caerphilly Magistrates’ Court | 570,000 | 445,000 |
Carmarthen Law Courts (The Guildhall) | 220,000 | 223,000 |
Chester-le-Street Magistrates’ Court | Information not held | 100,000 |
Dolgellau Mags & Crown Court | 80,000 | 67,509 |
Feltham Magistrates’ Court | 800,000 | 2,150,000 |
Grantham Magistrates’ Court | 400,000 | 560,000 |
Greenwich Magistrates’ Court | 2,400,000 | 12,005,000 |
Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court | 37,000,000 | 43,000,000 |
Holyhead Magistrates’ Court (North Anglesey) | 104,000 | 112,500 |
Liverpool, Dale Street Magistrates’ | 1,500,000 | 1,000,000 |
Llangefni County Court | 80,000 | 72,000 |
Neath And Port Talbot County Court | 200,000 | 250,000 |
Northallerton Magistrates' Court | 500,000 | 450,000 |
Pontypridd Magistrates’ Court | 320,000 | 350,000 |
Rhyl County Court | 81,000 | 92,150 |
Richmond Upon Thames Magistrates’ Court | 6,000,000 | 9,850,000 |
Solihull Magistrates’ Court | 1,400,000 | 4,300,000 |
Spalding Magistrates' Court | Information not held | 278,350 |
Tottenham (Enfield) Magistrates’ Court | 1,200,000 | 4,570,000 |
Waltham Forest Magistrates’ Court | 3,500,000 | 3,471,040 |
Watford Magistrates’ Court | 1,500,000 | 3,836,000 |
Weston Super Mare Magistrates' Court | Information not held | 116,078 |
Woolwich County Court | 1,280,000 | 2,555,000 |
Total | 63,329,681 | 95,803,437 |
The table above excludes transfers of surplus properties to other government departments (such as Homes England) as these are not categorised as sale transactions, but as internal transfers within government.
The closure of any court is not taken lightly – it only happens following full public consultation and when communities have reasonable access to alternative courts.