Lib Dems set for Westminster office

Office design news from Morgan Lovell

Published on 05-08-2011

The Liberal Democrats have confirmed they are relocating to a new headquarters in central London later this month.

The party is planning to say goodbye to the Cowley Street site it has occupied for more than quarter of a century over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

It will be moving to an office in Great George Street, opposite the Treasury in Westminster.

The move to the newly refurbished office space is being made for "logistical" and not financial reasons, according to a party spokesman, despite the Lib Dems being forced to make vast savings elsewhere.

And the party is set to incur the same costs for the open-plan second-floor space as the previous building, the spokesman added.

He also said that the office design at the old site did not encourage people to work together despite being "characterful".

The Westminster premises were once occupied by Middlesex County Council with the Lib Dems set to be some of the first tenants in the 1930s building since a major internal office refurbishment.