News / Council owned garage sites for sale
SHETLAND Islands Council has agreed to sell more than 30 garage sites in Lerwick to individual tenants.
Sites at Pitt Lane, Sletts Road, Glenfarquhar and Annsbrae will soon be offered to tenants; however, the council will retain garage sites at North Lochside and Garthspool as these areas are seen to have future development potential.
Housing boss Anita Jamieson told Monday’s development committee that she had received several representations from tenants wishing to buy the sites.
She said the last review of garage sites had been carried out in 1994 when it was decided that all these sites were not for sale as they were deemed to be of strategic value to the council.
The selling price for the earmarked 33 sites will be £2,600 – ten times the annual rent – plus fees for each site.
Eighteen garage sites at North Lochside, opposite the Clickimin Leisure Complex, will not be for sale as this area – with the newly built Anderson High School and the proposed housing development at Staney Hill – holds “significant future development potential or possible future uses”.
Twelve sites at Garthspool are also not for sale as the occupied area has “clear commercial development potential”.
These last sites will however transfer from being managed by housing to the council’s capital programme.
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