TWO former care facilities in Clydebank are set to be sold off – one of them for less than half the highest bid.

A report for the infrastructure, regeneration and economic development committee at West Dunbartonshire Council (WDC) asks councillors to approve the sale of the Frank Downie Care Home in Dalmuir and the Queen Mary Day Care Centre in Drumry.

The highest bid for the Drumry building, in Queen Mary Avenue, is said to be £265,000 from Property Scotland Limited, who plan to retain it as a judo club, gym and cafe.

But the report also recommends that the Frank Downie Care Home building, in Ottawa Crescent, should be sold for £127,555 to Torah Capital – despite the highest bid, from an undisclosed party, being for £265,000.

The report states: “The highest offer was conditional upon planning consent and satisfactory due diligence on ground conditions and contamination.

“Torah Capital proposes to demolish the building and bring forward proposals for a new residential development. Their offer is not subject to any suspensive conditions.”

The sites are two of four former care home facilities closed by WDC on completion of the new Queens Quay care home.

One of the other now-closed facilities, Boquhanran House on Dickens Avenue, was badly damaged in a fire in November, nine months after WDC announced the site had been sold for £461,000 to Turnberry Homes for new housing.