Fire chiefs have given the go ahead to put the site of a fire station in Milton Keynes out to tender.
Great Holm Fire Station staff have officially been relocated and merged with Bletchley at the new Blue Light Hub at West Ashland, in Milton Keynes.
Bletchley Fire Station site was taken over by MKDP, a development company owned by the council, on October 28, a meeting heard this week.
The executive committee of Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes Fire Authority on Wednesday was told that they have “received multiple expressions of interests from prospective purchasers” for Great Holm.
Fire authority officers had attempted to get planning permission for 18 homes on the lucrative site, spending “less than £5,000” on the application, before the covid-19 pandemic lead them to dropping it.
Now they are looking to get as much as they can for the site and at the meeting the councillors agreed with their advisers “that the need to keep the information exempt outweighs the public interest”.
The rest of their discussion took place after the YouTube broadcast of the meeting was switched off as they excluded the press and public from watching.
But the recommendations included that they would agree a minimum price for the site and take on an agent to market and sell it, using about one per cent of the sale price in fees.
The committee is due to receive an update at its meeting on February 10.
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