The sale of Plymouth’s historic Pounds House should be called off and the mansion turned into a “top grade wedding venue", says Tory chief Andy Lugger.

The opposition leader said the Grade II listed building, which hosted weddings in the past, would make a better register office than the current “industrial unit” at Derriford which he said is “totally unbecoming for a city of our size”.

Cllr Lugger attacked the current sale of the 19th Century former country house in Central Park, being off-loaded by owner Plymouth City Council along with 0.36 hectares of land around it. He, and his Conservative colleagues on the council, are calling on the Labour administration to call a halt.

Plymouth City Council, which owns the 200-year-old pile, said the disused building is in need of a new lea

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