The former police and fire station building on Shakespeare Street is one of the city's most historic structures. With the adjoining Guildhall site, the Grade II building remains an important relic of the city's past.

But the 1930s building is now a shell of its former self and brings the city down. Smashed windows, boarded-up walls and regular reports of arson - enough is enough. Nottinghamshire Live is now calling for prompt action on the building's progress.

"Disgusting, just disgusting" - that's the first sentence that came to mind for one nearby resident of the former fire and police station in Nottingham city centre when asked about the eyesore building.

The site on Shakespeare Street has been abandoned since being closed in 2013, and uncertainty has plagued its future in the years since.

The derelict building has, in recent years, also appeared to become somewhat of a hotspot for anti-social behaviour, with several recent arson attacks involving groups of young people.

Unsurprisingly, the aforementioned resident, 89-year-old Hilda Allsopp, is far from the only person rueing the building's decline. She joins many other local residents, the........

© Nottingham Post