The iconic Kaleidoscope building in Kingston town centre is likely to become a nursery, gym or school, according to its owner.
The building in Cromwell Road will soon be rented out to a commercial company and its current occupants, Straight Talking, may not fit in with the new layout. Kaleidoscope, which provided drug and alcohol misuse services in the borough, moved out after a series of run-ins with Kingston Council and the former primary care trust, but the national charity still owns its old building.
Straight Talking, a charity that employs teenage mothers and fathers to talk to younger people about pregnancies, declined to comment. Mr Blakebrough previously told the Surrey Comet the building could be put to use for residential purposes involving vulnerable people but this does not seem likely now.
Kaleidoscope currently runs Alfriston Day Centre in Berrylands Road, Surbiton, which cares for the elderly and it also runs another hostel for vulnerable people in the borough. Addaction, a charity which previously worked out of the Cromwell Road site, was also given its marching orders last year when it lost an NHS contract to provide mental health and substance misuse services.
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