The sale of the site of a former RUC station in West Belfast has been completed.
Representatives of the Northern Ireland Policing Board agreed to sell off the land where the Springfield Road station was once located.
It will be used by a housing association to build residential accommodation. The station's closure and eventual sale was agreed by the board in September 2002, but to complete the deal members of its finance and general purposes committee had to approve the conveyancing.
Committee Chairman Sammy Wilson said: "Securing and promoting the most efficient use of the resources available to the police service is one of our key roles and dealing with issues relating to property and land is another."
SDLP policing spokesman Alex Attwood described the move as a welcomed development.
He said: "It is a real measure of the change in the whole policing situation that police lands are being returned to community use."
