Courts and Tribunals: Closures
(asked on 30th September 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a list of the courts and tribunals, including the postcode locations, that have closed between 2010-11 and the most recent financial year for which figures are available.
Details of court and tribunal buildings closed between 2010-11 to 2016-17 was published in answer to Parliamentary Question 147811.
The requested information for 2017-18 onwards is provided below
Court and tribunal buildings closed during 2017-18 financial year | Postcode |
Aylesbury Crown Court | HP20 1XD |
Barnsley Wellington House | S70 1WA |
Bicester Magistrates' Court | OX26 2NZ |
Birmingham AIT (Sheldon Court) | B4 6DS |
Birmingham Magistrates' Youth Court | B4 6BJ |
Bolton Magistrates' Court | BL1 1UA |
Bow County Court | E15 4EG |
Bristol Vintry House | BS1 2BP |
Bury Magistrates' & County Court | BL9 0HX |
Caernarfon Civil and Family Court | LL55 2Df |
Cheltenham Rivershill House - Cheltenham Tribunal | GL50 3EX |
Chichester Magistrates' Court | PO19 1YE |
Derby Derwent Court | DE1 1SG |
Dover Magistrates' Court | CT16 1BS |
East Parade - Sheffield Tribunal | S1 2ET |
Eastbourne Magistrates' & County Court | BN21 4UN |
Hammersmith Magistrates' Court | W6 8DN |
Holyhead Magistrates' Court | LL65 1HG |
Kendal Magistrates' & County Court | LA9 4NF |
Kettering County Court | NN16 0BE |
Lambeth County Court | SE11 4DZ |
Lancaster County Court | LA1 1JW |
Llangefni Civil and Family Court | LL77 7EN |
Oldham County Court | OL1 1NL |
Stafford Magistrates' Court | ST16 3DW |
Stoke-on-Trent Tribunal Hearing Centre (Bennett House) | ST1 2QB |
Sunderland AS Hylton Park | SR5 3HD |
Telford County Court | TF3 4JP |
Torquay Magistrates' Court | TQ1 4BP |
Watford Magistrates' Court | WD17 1ST |
Woolwich County Court | SE18 6JW |
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Court and tribunal buildings closed during 2018-2019 financial year | Postcode |
Banbury Magistrates’ and County Court | OX16 2AW |
Chichester Combined Court | PO19 1SX |
Chippenham Magistrates' & Civil Court | SN15 3BF |
Chorley Magistrates’ Court | PR7 1RZ |
Maidenhead Magistrates’ Court | SL6 8PB |
Shrewsbury Crown Court | SY2 6LU |
Sunderland County Court | SR1 1RB |
Court and tribunal buildings closed between 1 April and 30 September 2019 | Postcode |
Colchester County Court | CO3 3EG |
Fleetwood Magistrates’ Court (sitting as a Family Hearing Centre) | FY7 6HJ |
Harlow Magistrates' Court | CM20 1JA |
Northallerton Magistrates' Court | DL7 8QZ |
Southend County Court | SS1 2AW |
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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.
We are reinvesting every penny raised from selling these underused buildings into modernising the justice system to provide swifter and easier access to justice for all.