A regional daily in the East Midlands is to move to new premises later this year after its offices were let to a government agency.
The Nottingham Post is leaving the Castle Wharf House building which has been its base since March 1998.
Staff at the Northcliffe-owned daily have been told of the move which is set to take place in the summer.
Overseeing the move is likely to be among the first duties of the paper’s new editor after the current incumbent Malcolm Pheby retires in June.
The Post was based at offices on Forman Street in the centre of Nottingham until 1998 when the paper relocated to Castle Wharf, in the heart of the city’s canal conservation area.
No decision has yet been made on new premises for the newspaper and a number of options are understood to be under consideration.
Its existing offices are believed to have been let to the Land Registry, the government agency which oversees the registration of ownership of land and property in the UK, with effect from September.
The Registry already has 14 regional offices around the UK including one at Chalfont Drive, Nottingham.
Northcliffe Media declined to comment further on the move.
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Sadly the move is inevitable. The cutbacks in staffing across the board has meant the current building has become more like a ‘ghost city.’ Once the Post reporters, photographers, subs, admin team and advertising executives occupied all four floors but now those who remain barely fill one and a half floors. The move from the old building off Trinity Square to Canal Street and now to a much smaller unit is a reflection of how the regional newspaper industry is going. Constant downsizing with the loss of many skilled and talented people. Hopefully, the paper can survive and I wish all the hard pressed reporters and photographers well. Diana Peasey, chair, of the Nottingham NUJ branch.
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The way things are going may I suggest they move the staff to a caravan situated just off the A52.
This will give the new management the flexibility required to cope with any further down sizing required whilst having the mobility to cover both Derby and Nottingham.
If you bought a caravan big enough you could provide the staff with both food and accomodation and also make a few bob selling bacon butties to subsidise the running costs. Job done.
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Isn’t this just a metaphor for the state of the country today?
The private sector as a whole, not just newspapers, is under constant attack from government and is, in many instances, in almost terminal decline.
So who will move in? Yet another arm of the bloated public sector, which is constantly growing and which seems to have no shortage of cash.
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I remember when NML moved in – it was not large enough!!!
How depressing for those poor souls left, listening to all of those lost voices.
Anyone got a couple of rooms to let over a shop?
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