The building then served as offices of Birmingham City Council until 2022, when it was closed and sold.

[2][3][4] The factory was demolished in the late 1960s and replaced, briefly, by a motor car and cycle accessory depot.

[5] The conversion of the depot into an office block, which was designed in the brutalist style, was completed in the early 1970s.

[6] The design of the new building preserved the shape of the motor depot with a main frontage of 17 bays facing the Lancaster Circus roundabout, and then a long side wing of 34 bays extending along Staniforth Street.

[7][8][9] Following the abolition of the county council in 1986,[10] the building was renamed 1 Lancaster Circus and occupied, as workspace, by the architecture, engineering, building, finance, environmental and consumer services departments of Birmingham City Council.