The Consumer Salon

The old Castle Green police station, a 135 years old building near the Sheffield’s magistrate’s court, will now be home to one third of the Howells’ Sheffield law firm staff. The firm is moving its staff from criminal and administrative departments in the shared offices building. It will obviously be very useful for the firm to have the criminal department right next to the court.

As its chief executive Graham Wright said recently the firm had lost a lot of good quality office space due to the 2007 floods and then the recession made the problem even worse. As a result, the firm had to work from its Bridge Street offices as it did not find good office space. Now the firm wants to more out of there to get more space for the staff.

The Castle Green building was unoccupied for 13 years before the firm took it. According to Mr. Wright, the staff is very happy about this apt business relocation.

The firm is moving its civil department, including personal injury, clinical negligence, housing, and employment lawyers to the Richfield house, which is another old police building and has been refurbished. This move will take a year to complete.

As a result, the Bridge Street offices will only have the family department. This will give sufficient space to all workers.

The Castle Green building is very old. Before it came into existence, the Sheffield Police Force used to work from the Waingate which was also the Town Hall then.