Land Opposite Isleburgh

[Mutton]

Does anyone know who owns the land opposite Islesburgh House? It's a prime bit of land right in the heart of Lerwick. It's shame more can't be made of it to compliment Islesburgh House and the hostel.

[Ghostrider]

Land? Which bit. The bowling green, the site with of old Central School Technical/Navigation Rooms/Canteen/Gym etc, or what?

[Mutton]

It's the land across from the bowling green going south. If you look on Googlemap there's a small blue shed and another red one.

[Ghostrider]

That's the site where the old Central School Technical/Navigation Rooms/Canteen/Gym etc were. I presume its SIC land, the Archives were in one of the old buildings, either Navigation Room or Gym, I forget which, until they moved to Hay's. Some of the now demolished buildings were used as small business units for a time.

 

When the complaints about the inadequacies of the current "new" library were at their height, somebody, I think it might have been Leslie Angus, suggested building a new library on the site, but I can't say I've heard it mentioned since. It does look pretty underused though, right enough.

[m.stewart]

Its at the back of my house at St Olaf Street. We had a planning notification the other week stating its to be demolished and a three storey archive and library building to be erected. (with parking for 37 vehicles)

[Russabell]

If I remember right, I heard on Radio Shetland a couple of months ago that the Council (Social Work) is going to use it for housing. I can't remember the correct term, but it was some sort of supported accommodation/sheltered housing scheme.

[Russabell]

Its at the back of my house at St Olaf Street. We had a planning notification the other week stating its to be demolished and a three storey archive and library building to be erected. (with parking for 37 vehicles)

 

I obviously don't remember right then.....!

[Muppet]

Its at the back of my house at St Olaf Street. We had a planning notification the other week stating its to be demolished and a three storey archive and library building to be erected. (with parking for 37 vehicles)

 

Erm, correct me if I'm wrong, but have our ever thrifty Council not just built a state of the art, brand new archive within the last year or two?

[shetlandpeat]

I think the museum has various archive buildings throughout Shetland, then they have the one to display, called a museum. At least they did when my father worked there.

[heglibister]

The archives at Hays Dock is the only county archive building. The museum has a store out the north road, and the two satellite museums- the Bod of Gremista and Crofthouse museum.

 

Would that they were building a new library there! Surely this would be known about before a planning application was put in...?

[Mutton]

Its at the back of my house at St Olaf Street. We had a planning notification the other week stating its to be demolished and a three storey archive and library building to be erected. (with parking for 37 vehicles)

 

Any artist's impressions with that at all?

 

I've heard nothing about this, you would have thought it would have made the news.

[Skunnered]

Its at the back of my house at St Olaf Street. We had a planning notification the other week stating its to be demolished and a three storey archive and library building to be erected. (with parking for 37 vehicles)

I can't find anything about it in the Planning Applications web site. Are you talking about the area opposite the Islesburgh Community Centre (old Central School) or opposite Islesburgh House?

[MuckleJoannie]

This article from June this year mentions putting a care centre at King Harald Street

 

http://www.shetland-news.co.uk/2010/June/news/Extra%20care%20places%20approved.htm

 

and also build a new care centre on the site of the old library at King Harald Street, providing 18 places.

[Ghostrider]

^^ Where was there ever a library in King Harald Street?

 

There was one in St Olaf Street, but that site is already re-developed as a care home.

[MuckleJoannie]

I think they must mean the old Archives building. As for library buildings I found this.

 

http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2009/03/20/library-plan-to-cost-19m

 

The plan chosen to cure the chronic lack of space in the new Shetland Library will cost around £1.9 million, if the SIC agrees to add the project to its long queue for funding. The solution would see the book-lending service return across the road to the former library building while the cramped former St Ringan’s church would become a reference and study area with computer and internet services.