A former day nursery building in Gloucester has been sold to a commercial property develop and is set to re-open as a specialist school.

Christie & Co has announced the sale of the vacant setting, which was previously owned by award-winning Shooting Stars Nurseries and was operational from 2013-2022.

The group decided to sell the site to reinvest in the development of its group closer to its Midlands hub.

Following an open market sales process with Jassi Sunner at Christie & Co, the setting has been purchased by commercial property investor, Nine Points Property, which will let the site out to Steve Miller at Hartmore Education Ltd.

Jon Higgins, director at Shooting Stars Nurseries, said: “The setting was acquired in 2012 and, after significant refurbishment and investment, was transformed into Shooting Stars Gloucester.

“We operated for 10 years, looking after a large number of families during that period.

“The other nurseries in our group are located around our head office in Bromsgrove, which meant we found it difficult, logistically, to offer the same level of support to our Gloucester nursery as we do our others.

“I’m pleased to have found a new owner for the site who can develop it as a special educational needs school.”

James Blake, director at Nine Points Property, the new owner of the setting, added: “The existing nursery site was in a prime location, of a good existing standard, and offered us the opportunity to refurbish it into a bespoke, high-quality Special Educational Needs (SEN) school.”

The Shooting Stars Nursery setting was sold for an undisclosed price.