Housing / Knab redevelopment infrastructure contract to go out to tender soon
PROGRESS appears to be on the horizon for the Knab redevelopment programme with a contract worth around £4.5 million for infrastructure work set to go out to tender soon.
Shetland Islands Council (SIC) development director Neil Grant said this contract relates to “getting all the main site infrastructure, main routes, drainage systems into the site”.
A further contract is also set to go out to tender later this year for the design of a revamped Janet Courtney hostel on the same site, which could be turned into flats.
An update released by the council earlier this year highlighted how a total of 145 housing units are planned for the site of the former Anderson High School in Lerwick in phases.
Demolition work has already finished in preparation for the next phase of the project.
The project will be supported by up to £9.6 million of Scottish Government funding as part of the islands growth deal.
Documents released by the SIC earlier this year stated that the project is within the “currently allocated budget” – although this is a budget that has already had to be increased in the past.
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