A shipping container-style portable building will be used as a temporary police station in Norwich while a multi-million-pound revamp goes ahead.

Norfolk Constabulary is to spend £6.5m to make improvements to Bethel Street Police Station, parts of which date back to the 1930s.

But, while that work is done, it means the building's public enquiry office - where people can go to report crimes and get advice - will be shut.

So, the force applied to Norwich City Council to be allowed to put a portable building outside the police station as a temporary public enquiry office during the refurbishment.

Officers at City Hall have given permission but stipulated it can only stay for a year.

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That building would only be used as the public enquiry office, with police based in temporary buildings at the back of the police station during construction work.

The revamp plans were approved by the council last year.

The bulk of the cells of the 1930s-built, Grade II* listed building will be removed, with a new single-storey extension built, while a drone landing pad will be built on the roof.