The controversial sale of a bit of Barrhead’s pure historical past went forward earlier this month – and achieved virtually six instances the information value.
The land surrounding Boyleston Quarry close to Fereneze golf course offered for a whopping £203,000 on Thursday, October 6, following a information value of simply £35,000.
Future Property Auctions, who marketed the world, steered in gross sales materials that the land is ripe for a housing growth or a waste switch website.
It’s doubtlessly unhealthy information for native residents who need to see the location preserved.
The world has been designated a website of particular scientific curiosity resulting from minerals seen because of quarrying. The work revealed exposures of the Clyde Plateau Lavas, which have been fashioned round 360 million years in the past, throughout the early a part of the Carboniferous interval.
Kirsty Menzies, who runs the Fereneze Braes of Barrhead Twitter account, mentioned the sale was regarding.
Chatting with the Paisley Each day Specific earlier than the public sale, she mentioned: “The ecological worth of the world is wonderful. And native individuals stroll lots across the space. So the truth that it’s going up on the market is kind of worrying.”
Kirsty believes that residents wouldn't solely lose a biodiverse a part of their neighborhood by means of the quarry’s growth, however that the quantity of noise and air pollution of any waste switch website, or home constructing can be “not an excellent factor”.
East Renfrewshire MP Kirsten Oswald has made enquiries relating to the sale and plans for future growth.
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