Last updated on September 4th, 2019 at 01:25 pm
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis one is for all you Larndarners, NORF, SARF, it doesn’t really matter cos Boris has sold you out anyway.
I’ve blogged before about MOPAC selling off the family silver, most recently NSY has gone, as you will have heard.
Well if any of you are interested in what has been happening to the Met’s Estate then read on, if not, duck out now.
Below are details of the Met’s properties that have been sold off 2013 up until end of August this year. I don’t know if NSY has completed yet, but it doesn’t seem to feature yet.
Name of site disposed of | Address & Postcode | Value of sale, £’000 | Purchaser name and description | Expected new use | Public Access Prior to Closure (Y/N) |
Julian Headon House – Office | West Hendon Broadway, Edgware, Hendon, NW9 7AL | £3,250 | Torah Vochesed Buildings Ltd | Private school for Jewish community | N |
Spring Court – Residential | 35 Station Road, Sidcup, DA15 7EA | £1,149 | Mr PJ and Mrs BT Sherlock | Refurbishment / redevelopment for residential | N |
Kingsbury Police Office | 5 The Mall, Kenton, Middlesex, HA3 9TF | £500 | Bellway Homes Ltd | Comprehensive redevelopment for residential | N |
Walthamstow Former Police Station | 360 Forest Road, London, E17 5JQ | £1,006 | E17 Met Ltd | Refurbishment / redevelopment for residential | Y |
Richmond Former Police Station | 8 Red Lion Street, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1RW | £2,700 | Snowfinch LLP | Ground floor commercial, upper floors residential | N |
Kingsground – Residential | 1-11 Kingsground and 134-144 Eltham Hill, Eltham, SE9 5ED | £1,271 | Wilson Homes (London) Ltd | Refurbishment / redevelopment for residential | N |
Hanwell Former Police Station | 169 Uxbridge Road, Ealing, W7 3TH | £950 | Octo Investments Ltd | Refurbishment / redevelopment for residential | N |
Amelia Street – Light Industrial | 2-16 Amelia Street, Walworth, London, SE17 3PY | £3,400 | Family Mosaic Home Ownership Ltd | Comprehensive redevelopment for residential | N |
St John’s Wood Former Police Station | 20 Newcourt Street, London, NW8 7AA | £8,555 | Newcourt Property Holdings Ltd | Refurbishment / redevelopment for residential | Y |
Mackenzie Trench House – Residential | 363 Lillie Road London, SW6 7PD | £3,250 | Cherwell (Lillie Road) Ltd. | Refurbishment / redevelopment for residential | N |
3-5 Radbourne Road – Office | 3-5 Radbourne Road London, SW12 0EA | £1,115 | Radbourne DCP Ltd. | Comprehensive redevelopment for residential | N |
Willesden Green Former Police Station | 965 High Road London, NW10 | £2,550 | Gargreen Ltd. | Comprehensive redevelopment for residential | Y |
Winchmore Hill Former Police Station | 687 Green Lanes London , N21 | £900 | AMC Trust | Refurbishment / redevelopment for residential | Y |
Leyton Former Police Station | 215 Francis Road London, E10 | £1,250 | Uptime Properties Ltd. | Refurbishment / redevelopment for residential | Y |
Harold Hill Former Police Station | Gooshays Drive London, RM3 | £1,625 | Lidl UK GmbH | Redevelopment for retail | N |
1-8 Park Close, Windsor – Residential | Brook Street Old Windsor, SL4 | £2,250 | The Crown Estate | Refurbishment / redevelopment for residential | N |
Battersea Former Police Station | 112-118 Battersea Bridge Road London, SW11 | £6,000 | Linden Limited | Comprehensive redevelopment for residential | Y |
Connaught Gardens – Residential | Connaught Gardens 5-9 & Flats 10-27 London, N10 3LH | £9,150 | Pantheon Services Limited & Muswell Limited | Refurbishment / redevelopment for residential | N |
Clapham Former Police Station | 51 Union Grove London SW8 2QU | £4,500 | Lexadon (Union Grove) Limited | Refurbishment / redevelopment for residential | Y |
Muswell Hill Former Police Station | 115 Fortis Green London N2 9HW | £3,525 | Station House (Muswell Hill) Limited | Refurbishment / redevelopment for residential | Y |
East Ham Former Police Station & Section House | 4 High Street South London E6 6ES | £3,350 | London Design and Engineering UTC | Education | Y |
Brockley Former Police Station | 4 Howson Road London SE4 2AS | £2,050 | Holbrook Investments Limited | Refurbishment / redevelopment for residential | Y |
Chadwell Heath Former Police Station | 14 Wangey Road Chadwell Heath Essex RM6 4AJ | £1,000 | Al Huda Welfare Foundation | Education / community | N |
Orpington Former Police Station | The Walnuts Orpington BR6 0TW | £2,307 | Berkeley Homes (Eastern Counties) Limited | Comprehensive redevelopment for residential / health care | Y |
Hackney Former Police Station | 2 Lower Clapton Road Hackney E5 0PA | £7,600 | Tauheedul Free School Trust | Education | Y |
Whetstone Former Police Station | 1170-1172 High Road London N20 0LW | £4,150 | Alma Primary | Education | Y |
Golders Green Police Station | 1069 Finchley Road London NW11 0QE | £5,312 | Derbyhaven Services Ltd., & Ellora Enterprises Ltd., & Adria Services Ltd. | Residential / community | Y |
Harrow Road Police Station | 325 Harrow Road, London W9 3RD | £9,000 | Redrow Homes Ltd. | Residential | Y |
Wanstead Police Station | Spratt Hall Road, Wanstead, London, E11 2RQ | £1,635 | Sunil Kumar Goel & Ajanta Gupta | Residential | Y |
East Dulwich (New) Police Station | 173-183 Lordship Lane London SE22 8HA | £6,400 | Harris Federation | Education | Y |
South Norwood Police Station | 11 Oliver Grove London SE25 6ED | £2,300 | Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | Education | Y |
Barnes Green Police Office | 96-102 Station Road Barnes SW13 0NG | £10,005 | Berkeley Homes (Central London) Limited | Residential | N |
Pan London Residential | Various | £4,128 | Various | Residential | N |
Highgate Police Station | 407-409 Archway Road London N6 4NW | 3,575 | Bellway Homes Limited | Residential | N |
Barking Police Station | 6 Ripple Road, Barking IG11 7PE | 925.00 | Resco Investments Limited | Residential | Y |
Wealdstone Police Station | 74 High Street Wealdstone HA3 7AF | 950.00 | Meso Investment LLP | Residential | N |
Marylebone Police Station | 1-9 Seymour Street London W1H 7BA | 3,000 | Seymour Street Nominees Limited & Berkeley Street Nominees Limited c/o The Portman Estate | Mixed use redevelopment | Y |
Tabor Grove | 22 Tabor Grove Wimbledon SW19 4EB | 1,635 | Southpoint Capital Limited | Residential/office | N |
Hampstead Police Station | 26 Rosslyn Hill London NW3 1PD | 14,105 | The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government | Education | Y |
West Drayton Police Station | Station Road Hillingdon UB7 7JQ | 2,200 | Area Estates Limited | Residential | N |
Chalk Farm Garage | 5-17 Haverstock Hill London NW3 3NN | 2,000 | Cambridge Gate Properties Limited | Residential/retail | N |
Sydenham Police Station | 179 Dartmouth Road London SE26 4RN | 1,455 | Sydenham PS Limited | Residential | Y |
Norbury Police Station | 1516 London Rd. Norbury SW16 4ES | 940.00 | Norbury PS Limited | Residential | Y |
Pan London Residential | Various | 3,957 | Various | Residential | N |
Now my basic abacus makes this just shy of £124 million.
Is is worth it? Is that really enough to make a difference. Where on earth are all your lockers and kit going going to be? Back room as Tesco (other supermarkets are available)?
In addition to this there are also plans to sell the following in the next year or so;
Chelsea Police Station
Buckingham Gate
A 5 metre wide strip of land on Isle of Dogs (god knows what that is)
Residential Property Treetops, 4A The Drive, George Road, Coombe Hill, Kingston, Surrey.  I have no idea who used to live here, but no.2 sold in 2009 for £3.75 MILLION, so not a PC I’m guessing.
 TREETOPS
Residential Property 17 Canonbury Park North.
Buckingham Gate, who could forget Buckingham Gate?? I don’t know if the County Forces have the equivalent, a dedicated Feeding Centre for those on Aid to Central London etc. A fantastic building with great atmosphere, catering staff would always greet you with a smile and a cheery comment, no matter what the time of day, although they did sometimes give us curry for breakfast, but who cared? A great place to swap your Beat Duty Helmet for somebody else’s if yours was a bit tired (allegedly) and those a little older than me inform me that it was the building in which the official enquiry into the sinking of the Titanic was held. So not short on history either, but let’s just sell it off.
So there you go Londoners, a little bit more history goes down the pan, and will it REALLY help. It sounds like a lot of money to us, but set against the operating budget for the MPS is it?
I wouldn’t mind writing a post or elaborating on some of the subjects you write with regards to here. Again, awesome weblog!
Thank you Ideb8 for providing the full quote and links – when Bernard Jenkin MP reported to Parliament on the James Patrick allegations he said that the “most shameful” aspect of the affair was the failure of the Police Federation to support to PC Patrick.
At the time both Alan and I stated we would like to know the Federation’s reasoning in their apprent failure to give support.
In that context the statement from Steve White is helpful; the preceding questioning had included the disclosure that the Federation had spent £9 million that year on getting the best legal support to their members. Steve White’s statement that (providing he was subscribing member at the time of the allegations) he would be represented and, in fact, such representation would be his entitlement.
Not for the first time we are being asked whether we believe the word of a Conservative Member of Parliament or the word of the Police Federation.
Mirrors & smoke?
Mirror: the navy have an aircraft carrier with no aircraft & the police have officers with no station
Smoke: none without a fire & future riots without officers stationed in the vicinity to quell any
Keira re Fed: rearguard (re)action?
Home Affairs Committee, Oral evidence: College of Policing, HC 800
Tuesday 9 December 2014
Q124 Paul Flynn: Police Constable James Patrick was the whistleblower who wrote a blog, and later a book, exposing the way that crime figures were falsified by the Met police. He has left the police now, but there is a possibility that there might be repercussions as far as his previous conduct was concerned. As he is a former member of the Federation, will the Federation be defending him in any action taken?
Steve White: If he was a subscribing member at the time of the allegations, then he would be represented and entitled to representation; certainly representation, yes.
http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/home-affairs-committee/college-of-policing/oral/16249.html
http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=16780&st=15:37:30
I recognise that these changes will upset some people because they were places to which they have had happy memories; however I’m struggling to get too worked up about this. The reality is the deficit and the deficit is the reality. The central issue here is when the public pay for policing where does the money go? I met someone from the Taxpayers Alliance who told me “I want the money for policing to go to policing and not to property management!” You may disagree with her but it’s harder not to say that she has a valid point of view.
The next government of whatever political view will have to keep cuttting the deficit and will do so, in part, by shrinking the cost of public services. In so far as there is a difference between left and right parties – the right of centre parties believe in a small public service as an ideological point of view – the left believe in a larger public service (oft forgotten fact is that the last Labour administration increased public expenditure on the police by 50% in real terms) – and the current administration want to shrink expenditure back to the level of the last Conservative Government under John
Major.
This was the issue that the Police Federation both failed to grasp and failed to address in sucessive Conferences. It will be interesting to see the impact of their own process of reform under Normington and whether they can present a better case.
NB – you may be about to address this in a blog, but I notice that when the Fed Chairman was before the Select Committee this week. He pointed out that the Federation paid £9m in legal fees in defending the membership last year. He was questioned about Federation support for James Patrick. His response was that, provided Mr Patrick was paying his Federation subscriptions at the time of any alleged incidents he was entitled to Federation support. This appears to be an ongoing issue.
Regarding James Patrick, he will make his own decisions and take his own course of action. If he feels that he is due some Federation funding I’m sure he will apply for it in the normal way.
Regarding the lady from the Taxpayers’ Alliance, I can only agree with her (and possibly yourself) partially. The nature of Policing requires buildings, much more goes on within a Police Station than charging prisoners and much of it is not suitable for a Portacabin in a supermarket car park. We come back to the Reform vs Destruction argument. I can support Rationalisation of the Estate but to sell off too much is plain folly. There are already rumours afoot that the Met’s new HQ is not big enough now that NSY has been sold off.
Part of the Police’s service to the public requires buildings and accessible ones. Closing Police Stations and Front Counters might produce a few pounds but does nothing to improve the quality of service provided to the Public. Others are entitled to hold an opposing view, but that is mine.
I seem to remember that the keys to the married quarters were kept in the Station Office. I was Station Officer one day when a very senior officer came to collect some keys. I then found out that there was separate accomodation for them and us. Used to live at the flats in Kingsground, Eltham. Best commute to work ever, just a short walk up the hill to Eltham (RD?).
Thinking about it deeper, on J the residents in the south of the Borough near Stratford are getting short changed here, now that JL, JW and JS are gone. Unless there has been rebuilding in the time since I left, they are getting policed from Chingford, that is an awful long way away. I suppose it’s only right and proper that the middle classes of JC are catered for first. ;-/
The liat isn’t complete by any means, but it is rather saddening to see them all get sold off, front counters closing. Maybe they sign the Bail Book by email now.
Shouldn’t get attached to a building of course but I am saddened by this as I have served at several of them, JW, JL, DS, DR, DM, JN, JH. I see JS is not in list though that must have sold off earlier. Not forgetting several SQ’s not in the list and sold off Married Qrtrs (we bought a Job house at full market value (like fools) in the late ’80’s). There isn’t much left. BTW DS address was 20 & 1/2 Newcourt Street. Some small police stations back in the day had the 1/2 for reasons I cannot remember. 🙂
Beggars belief, no words to describe my dissapointment.
Loss of history and visibility to the public.
No valuebon history or tradition. And I’m sure there’s still a place for Buckingham Gate