The sculpture known as the Woolmead flame could finally be installed on the side of the Brightwells Yard building soon more than five years after efforts to find it a permanent home began.

John Neale, of the Farnham Public Art Trust, said the piece was scheduled to go up in the next few week but he cautioned that nothing could be confirmed until it was actually on the wall. The building has required additional structural surveys to accommodate the four-and-a-half-metre sculpture.

Mr Neale, a former councillor, has been working on the project ever since, said trustee of the Farnham Public Arts Tust Ella first proposed mounting the flame on the building overlooking the town centre car park.

Crest Nicholson had originally agreed to carry out the installation, but pulled out amid the developer's financial difficulties, leaving responsibility split between the town council, which holds nominal ownership of the sculpture, and Surrey County Council, which owns the building itself.

Documentation from when the piece was dismantled at the former Woolmead site states it should pass into the town council's ownership and safekeeping.

The flame is currently stored behind a private studio at West Street Cemetery, run by sculptor Ian Bishop, who previously restored the piece. It remains visible from the street cemetery a wire fence.

According to Farnham Town Council the flame is ready to be installed but there has yet to be a confirmed date as to when it will be placed.