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As far as I'm aware (I work for Ministry of Justice) the plans to build a new court centre encompassing all the courts (Mags/Crown/County & tribunal) have been shelved in order to meet the targets given in the spendingh review.
There were a number of suggestions as to what to do with Victoria Law courts after the move, including selling it off for development into bars/restaurants. the difficulty is that as well as the building some of the court rooms are also protected.
Another suggestion was for ownership to be passed to Birmingham College of Law for it to be used for training and posssibly an advocacy acadamy.
However it seems no move is going to take place in the near future.
I agree, handing it over as a 'leisure' development would be a crying shame. The law acadamy is the prefered idea, trouble is the place is extremely expensive to operate (around 4mil per year).
As it stands though, it is going to remain as Court of law. It's possible the Crown court could move back in. Either way, there needs to be quite a bit spent on doing up the cells as they are not upto standard!