Dudley Council is to buy Sedgley's Ladies Walk clinic and library building in a multi-million pound deal to secure its future.
Dudley Council is to buy a clinic and library building which had been under threat of closure.
Patrick Harley, leader of Dudley Council, said the authority was in advanced negotiations with Aviva properties to buy the freehold on the Ladies Walk Centre, which had been due to close next year when the 25-year lease was due to expire.
Sign up to our free newsletter today
But the council agreed an extension to the lease in October after a summer of campaigning, which included a number of public meetings in the village and a 1,600-signature petition presented to parliament by Sonia Kumar MP.
Miss Kumar said that the centre was under threat because the council had failed to agree a new lease.
Councillor Harley said he could not disclose the price that the council would be paying at the present time because of commercial confidentiality.
But it will tun into several million pounds.
Councillor Harley said he hoped the deal would clear up once and for all any questions about its future.
"Sedgley residents can rest assured the council is in the process of purchasing Ladies Walk," he said.
"That means the council will be the sole owner of that building. That means that the NHS and our own internal housing division will be paying rent centrally, which will help recoup some of that cost."
The building opened in 2001 having been built under a private finance initiative deal, replacing a previous council-owned library and clinic on the site.
It was opened by former cabinet minister Jacqui, now Baroness Smith, and then Dudley North MP Sir Ross Cranston.
