Custody suite at Wrexham Police Station damaged by flooding

Custody facilities at Wrexham Police Station are temporarily out of action due to flood damage.

The suite on the Bodhyfryd site suffered the damage during the heavy rain and storm on Monday evening.

A spokesperson for North Wales Police confirmed that custody facilities at Mold Police Station are currently being used as a result.

The police tower block on the Bodhyfryd site is set to be demolished in the coming months – with a multi-million pound north east Wales policing headquarters set to open on Llay Industrial Estate.

Work developing the £21.5 million state-of-the-art police station on the former Sharps factory site has been underway since January 2017. Once fully operational up to 200 officers and staff will be based there at any one time.

It will have 32 cells, canteen facilities, and two gyms, one of them for conducting beep fitness tests for police officers, as well as locker rooms and garages.

The site will also be eco-friendly, with an 80 kilowatt solar array on the roof, rainwater harvesting for washing 85 police vehicles a week, smart lighting to conserve energy and sunlight shafts to ensure those in the pre-cast internal cells get natural light.

A smaller police station is also being created in the former Oriel Wrecsam, located next to the Wrexham Library which is expected to open later this summer.

A new custody suite has also been proposed for the nearby Wrexham Magistrates Court once demolition is complete.

Earlier this year it was announced that supermarket Lidl had confirmed that contracts had been exchanged for a new store on the Bodhyfryd site.

The planned store in Wrexham will add to Lidl’s existing store portfolio of 700, and will form part of the company’s growth plans which will see it open up to 50 new stores a year.