Welsh government should sell Cathays Park complex, insider says

According to a former senior civil servant, the Welsh government should sell its cardiff headquarters.

For former chief of the office of the office at the Cattage Park, Des Clifford said that instead a small office should be set up at Cardiff Bay near Center.

Their comments come after coming new data Show that on an average, only 19% of the employees located in Catties Park worked in the office every day in March.

First Minister Elund Morgan Said first The government will not be able to “justification” to keep its offices open if employees continue to stay away.

Before Kovid was killed, around 2,500 people worked at the Cattage Park every day.

However, since the epidemic continues to work from home.

The most recent appearance figures for March, showing that each day the number of people participating in the Cattage Park office was 576 (19%).

The highest daily appearance was 799 (26%).

Talking to the BBC NewyDdion S4C, Des Clifford said that the days of employees working in the office were over five days a week and the time had come to sell the Catties Park.

“This is an ugly and immortal building,” he said.

“I will shut it down and perhaps sell it to the university or someone else and set up a new office in the Gulf so that the government and the sended shoulder should be shoulder.”

This will provide a great opportunity to “mix between civil servants and the government and Sendd, which, in certain ways, can create a certain type of consistent,” he said.

The Cattage Park Complex consists of two buildings connecting a bridge.

The old building, dating from the 1930s and Grade II, was originally kept at the Welsh Board of Health of the UK Government.

After the post of State Secretary of Wales in the 1960s, it became home to the Welsh office.

The new building, which was completed in 1979, provided additional office space for a Welsh office, acquiring the increasing limit of responsibilities.

The two-Bilding Complex became home to the government after 20 years in 1999, running away from Wales.

The Welsh government has a total of 20 sites in Wales including 15 so -called “core offices”.

The cost of running these offices in 2023-24 was £ 24.5m.

The average daily attendance beyond the assets of the Welsh government in March was 16%.

Asked what should happen to those offices, Mr. Clifford said that “there were all kinds of strange questions that arise if you have an office in Landudano Junction and you have one and one in CareRnarfon”.

“Are there two justifies under two circumstances that we are describing when you have found two buildings in addition to 30 miles (48 km)?

“Swanasi and Carrumrthhana produces a single set of questions between the penalger, which I think again, there is a distance of about 30 miles between the two.”

Welsh government hopes that its employees will spend 40% of the week – equal to two days – in the office.

Last week’s first minister Elund Morgan told Center: “Clearly, a point will come where you have to say that” If you don’t turn, we cannot justify keeping this particular office open. “

The government review of the power offices – Landrindod is already running in Wales and Newtown.