Plans are in the pipeline to sell Kendal’s County Hall.
The building, owned by Westmorland & Furness Council, needs £7 million-worth of investment to become fit for purpose and the authority stopped using it in 2024.
Members of the authority’s cabinet will discuss the building on Tuesday.
The County Hall was built in 1937 as the base of the then-Westmorland County Council, before going on to be used by Cumbria County Council.
Services based there included customer services, registrations and ceremonies, democratic services and public meetings.
They were temporarily moved to other locations. Now, the building and the land surrounding it could be sold off, with those services given permanent new homes.
David Hodgkinson, the council’s director of resources, in a report to councillors said recommendations for the building included permanently closing the building and declaring it to be surplus to operational requirements.
The report said: “To be clear this constitutes the main building, the front and immediate rear car parks and the adjacent visitor car park inclusive of the surplus building referred to as 155 Stricklandgate.”
It added that the main pay and display car park to the rear of the building and its ancillary land would be retained by the council.
If the motion were to be passed, the Kendal Archives, which have already been moved to Cumberland Council, would be found new homes, concluding by September this year.
Officers recommended that the building is progressed directly to the final stage, which would see the building sold as via a community asset transfer, meaning transferring it to a community organisation at less than market value or at no cost, or sold at market value.
