800 Telford & Wrekin Council staff to quit site of 40 years
About 800 staff are on the move as Telford & Wrekin Council prepares to hand over its home of 40 years to make way for a new supermarket.
The last workers will leave the civic offices at Malinslee House on December 14 before the town centre site is handed over to Asda. The huge task of packing up all the equipment and files is well under way.
The staff are moving into other offices around the town as the council seeks to save cash.
Leaders claim the move will save the authority up to £2 million per year.
Most of the 800 staff who have been based at the civic offices are making the short trip to the other side of the town centre ring road.
Four hundred people will be moving into Addenbrooke House and others into neighbouring Darby House.
Other workers have alreday moved to offices at the new Wellington Civic and Leisure Centre and to the council's existing base at Granville House in Donnington.
Council spokesman Russell Griffin said: "Telford & Wrekin Council's staff are now completing a series of office moves as part of the authority's drive to reduce the office space that it uses.
"The council has now largely moved out of the civic offices, which will be demolished in the next couple of months and replaced by an Asda superstore.
"Civic offices has been the council's main base since the mid 1970s.
"The council has reduced the space it uses by around a third in the past year, helping it make significant savings in running costs and saving around £2 million a year."
The new buildings are smaller and more energy efficient, which will add to the savings made on the capital costs of civic offices.
The council has, in total, now sold 24 office buildings around the borough.
The First Point reception at the civic offices will close at noon on December 14 and will reopen at noon on December 17 at Addenbrooke House on Ironmasters Way.
The First Point customer contact centre will be in Addenbrooke until 2014, when the new Southwater One building, housing the new Telford library, opens.
More information about the move and maps of the new offices, are available at www.telford.gov.uk/onthe move
