A FORMER Westcliff health centre is being sold at auction with a guide price of £150,000.

The Westcliff Clinic, at 415 Westborough Road, will go under the hammer today by auctioneer Allsop, at the Cumberland Hotel, in London.

The building used to be a baby clinic until it closed down four years ago and residents are adamant they don’t want it turned into flats.

The clinic has been marketed as a “health facility”, but the auctioneer hasn’t ruled out its potential for development.

David Webb, 39, of nearby Fairmead Avenue, said: “Ideally, they should keep it as a clinic at it means parents would stop clogging up the hospital instead.

“Or it could work as a GP surgery, as we’re short of practices in the area, but I wouldn’t want it to become flats as we are already the most densely populated ward in the borough.

“A family house would be another good use for it, as would some sort of community facility for mentally and physically disabled people.

We don’t have that in Westcliff.”

There are six rooms on the ground floor and three above in the two-storey building.

David Glover, secretary of the Residents Association of Westborough, said: “We would oppose it becoming flats on the grounds of very little parking.

“There was a shop next door to it which was turned into flats and Westcliff is saturated with them.

“I would like the building to be turned into a community facility.”