A COLLECTION of Dalmuir garages which have fallen into a state of disrepair have led to calls for a public consultation to determine whether they should be demolished.

A number of garages throughout the area are said to have become an "eyesore" to residents and now Dalmuir and Mountblow Community Council have said they want to see a West Dunbartonshire Council consultation of locals to determine how to improve them.

Vice chairman of the community council, Craig Edward, said: "Some of the garages are rented very well and some are not but overall some of them are in disrepair from a council maintenance perspective as they are not very well maintained.

"The ideal course of action would be to see if residents want to keep the garages, if so how many and then how we need to look at how they will be retained.

"A lot of them are boarded up so we need to find out what the cause is as to why.

"It would be great to do something with it but we need an actual survey so I would welcome the council doing a consultation to understand what the residents in Dalmuir are wanting from the garages or ask us to do one."

During a meeting of the Housing and Communities Committee, council papers showed an inspection of each garage site, a drawing of new site plans with chronological numbering for each plot on all garage sites and an issue of termination notifications and re-offer letters to tenants were completed from March to December 2014.

However, Clydebank Waterfront Councillor Marie McNair asked if there were plans to demolish the lock up garages on Durban Avenue because they had become "blight" on the landscape.

Cllr McNair told the Post: "I share the concerns of my constituents and will do everything possible to see this situation improved.

"The lock-ups are an absolute eyesore and I have already raised my concerns at the Housing and Communities Committee.

"The committee will now receive a report that will allow us to consider the options on the best way forward.

"I will consult with my constituents about this and hopefully we will see this eyesore tackled and a better local environment secured."

And Dalmuir and Mountblow Community Council have backed her plans to speak with constituents.

Mr Edward added: "I've had some informal chats with residents and some have said it needs to go but some have said they are happy with it because they are solving traffic and parking problems so for that reason they are beneficial.

"We've got to be very cautious, we don't want to take the views of two or three people on behalf of everybody so there needs to be a full consultation to establish how to go forward."