Part of an empty school site and a former children's centre are among council-owned buildings which are to be leased or sold off.

Norfolk County Council's Conservative-controlled cabinet agreed to declare a number of properties which it owns as t no longer needed by the authority.

Fakenham & Wells Times: The former Fakenham Academy siteThe former Fakenham Academy site (Image: Brown & Co)

Buildings and the field at the former Fakenham Academy site are among those properties, with councillors agreeing they can be leased to the academy trust which runs the nearby Duke of Lancaster special school.

Councillors agreed, at a recent meeting, to lease the 2.6-acre site, off Wells Road, to the SENDAT academy trust at a peppercorn rent for almost 125 years.

The trust proposes to use the land and buildings to deliver vocational training in horticulture and grounds maintenance to students at the Duke of Lancaster school, as well as students from their other special educational needs schools and the wider community.

Councillors also agreed the authority no longer needs Norman House in Great Yarmouth.

Fakenham & Wells Times: Norman House in Great YarmouthNorman House in Great Yarmouth (Image: Google Street View)

The property in Tar Works Road, which is a former highways depot, is currently being used as a family centre by the council's children's services department.

But the council is seeking permission from Great Yarmouth Borough Council to create a new family centre for the town in the Grade II-listed Shrublands Farmhouse building, on the grounds of the Seagulls Surestart Centre on Magdalen Way.

If that is approved, it will mean Norman House will no longer be needed, so county councillors agreed to sell it.

The idea is to sell it to an independent living housing company, which would provide homes for elderly or disabled people on the site.

Councillors also gave the green light for the sale of a bungalow at Low Farm in Brundall, plus land at The Meadow in Cromer and Baldock Drive in King's Lynn.

Fakenham & Wells Times: County councillor Jane JamesCounty councillor Jane James (Image: Jane James)

Jane James, cabinet member for corporate services and innovation, said the disposals of the properties were "judged to provide the best return to the council".