Land banks
I see that we are due to get £150,00 of funding to buy two banks of land in Vatersay and at the Lews Castle College.
A good long term investment, but just how buying land will "help to kick start construction work" remains a mystery to me.
However, our MSP seems to think that buying land will somehow immediately deliver houses, despite the absence of any actual funding for building anything. Perhaps the promised funding will eventually be delivered, and the houses eventually built.....
Just where about in the grounds of the Lews Castle College is it proposed that new houses be built? I don't recollect this being in the local plan, but perhaps I missed it, but I have some reservations about housing inside the Castle policies, even if it is 'student' accomodation.
A good long term investment, but just how buying land will "help to kick start construction work" remains a mystery to me.
However, our MSP seems to think that buying land will somehow immediately deliver houses, despite the absence of any actual funding for building anything. Perhaps the promised funding will eventually be delivered, and the houses eventually built.....
Just where about in the grounds of the Lews Castle College is it proposed that new houses be built? I don't recollect this being in the local plan, but perhaps I missed it, but I have some reservations about housing inside the Castle policies, even if it is 'student' accomodation.
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Heard on Isles fm that the land in question was at the Castle School, not the College.
I think you'll find that the houses are already planned by HHP - this is the Government supplying HHP with the funding to buy the actual land required for the planned units.
Yes it is the old Gibson Hostel.
The Lews Castle School would make much more sense - the old hostel site on Robertson Road - as that has been zoned for housing for years and years. Indeed, I recall the Council trying to get the funding to develop this in/around 2001.
I hear the Beach Bouy has a few new peirs in the pipeline. The first one being in Achmore.
I think the last housing in the Castle Grounds was Nissan Huts after the war.
Maybe Mein Groben Fuhrer Salmond is going to start a consentration camp there now that his budget was ditched.
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