THE number of council owned buildings is being reduced in a bid to save money.

At a full meeting of Flintshire Council, members and the public were given an update on how the authority was reducing its office building estate to reduce costs and generate funds.

As part of the programme six operational depots have been 'rationalised' into one 'super' depot at Alltami and the former civic offices in Connah's Quay were demolished some time ago.

Phases three and four of County Hall, Mold have been vacated and are planned to be demolished later this year.

A one-off saving from a reduced County Hall of £300,000 was adopted as part of the 2018/19 council budget.

Parents campaigning for more schools funding, had queried whether the council could use money from the sale of buildings to finance education.

A spokesman for the council said: "There are limits on how capital receipts gained from the sale of land and assets can be used to cross-subsidise revenue costs as these can only be spent once.

"Therefore it is not a sustainable approach to budget planning to use capital receipts to subsidise ongoing costs."