Marlow’s police team will have to wait a little longer to move into their permanent base after a “slight delay” in the opening of the redeveloped station

Officers were set to move into the Dean Street base in August after plans to convert the police station into 30 retirement flats were given the green light in 2016.

PC Claire Marchant said in a meeting of the South West Chilterns & Marlow Local Area Forum this week that officers will now not move in until late September but did not give a reason why, saying simply that the opening of the base, next to Peel Lodge, had been “slighty delayed”.

The team had to relocate to Marlow FC, in Oak Tree Road, operating out of two portable cabins in the grounds after plans to transform the police station in the “gateway” to Marlow were given the go-ahead despite concerns over limited parking spaces and impact on neighbouring homes.

The police station has been in the spotlight since 2014 when Thames Valley Police was forced to put it up for sale after announcing £44.6 million of savings had to be made.