Are we loosing the Staney Hill?

[AlexandraS]

It's a vicious cycle, people are on the waiting list for town, because that's where the houses are. Anyone wanting social housing studies the figures closely and sees that turnover is high in Lerwick and therefore your chance is seemingly higher.

Drive through Voe and you think it's nice and you'd want to live there, plenty of what looks like social housing. Study the figures for availability/turnover and you'll see there's only a few over 1-bed on the council's books - and what's the rate of attrition? Virtually nil, so it'd likely be a wasted application - unless of course you've all the time in the world and aren't looking for a roof over your head right now. 

That has a knock on effect of course, the population ages, the school has closed and yet it's a great location. Sheltered from the weather, pub/restaurant, shop/petrol and on a pretty regular bus route. 

Edited March 11, 2015 by AlexandraS

[tooney1]

^ Correct, it's catch 22. Also the most desirable place will always be where the development and investment is happening, with Lerwick continuing to grow exponentially compared with anywhere else including neighbouring areas that are easier to develop.

 

However filling up Lerwick and keeping everywhere else a "commuter village" isn't sustainable long-term. I think they should be asking the question and looking into "Where next?" now instead of in 10-20 years time when a different set of problems will present themselves.

 

It will be interesting to see the plans, which I'm guessing will be 90%+ social housing with district heating and a few token plots/shared equity schemes, to fulfill an ever-growing government-led communist agenda.

[Claadehol]

I do wish someone, somehow would or could correct that glaring spelling mistake in this topic's title. There's only one 'o' in the word 'losing'.

It wouldnt be so bad if the title didnt keep popping up again and again as comments are added. It would be easier to ignore if it just got lost in the posts.  

[crofter]

Once the blasting begins they might "loosen" the hill!

[9walker]

If nothing else, the sudden arrival of 100's of readily available homes might bring house prices across Shetland back to reality.

[Colin]

You think so?

 

Reckon that by the time the "chemically dependent", "alkies", "baby farms" and runaways off the boat get seen to, there will be precious few available for "normal" working people.

 

Business as usual I think.

[Lerwick antiques]

Does the staney hill have any historical importance? There are quite a few wartime stone huts or bunkers on the hill. I would have thought that the hill would have been a listed place that can't be touched?

[Urabug]

Will there be a Mosque !

[Colin]

Does it matter?

[Ghostrider]

Does the staney hill have any historical importance? There are quite a few wartime stone huts or bunkers on the hill. I would have thought that the hill would have been a listed place that can't be touched?

 

Numerous hills (and elsewhere) in Shetland have that, Shetland was a semi-fortress in WWII. A lot of it has already been lost to natural decay, and more recent overbuilding. Are the few bits and pieces on the Staney Hill any more important than those elsewhere. ie. the stuff at the Ness of Sound, at the South Ness below the Knab, near Heogan etc.

Edited April 13, 2015 by Ghostrider