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Search the Public Notice PortalWest Dunbartonshire Council is set to finalise the purchase of land which they sold to a housing developer five years ago - for almost three times the price.
The site of the former Frank Downie Care and Day Care Centre has laid unused since the local authority decided to close the service and sell the land back in 2020.
Their plan was to build a new care home in the flagship Queens Quay development which would merge together four smaller centres within the Clydebank area.
Once this was completed, the former Frank Downie House was sold to Torah Capital in late 2021 who had plans to demolish the centre and use the land for residential housing after their £137,136 purchase.
However, this work was never undertaken.
The land has since been sold privately twice to the Glasgow West Development Company and then CCG Scotland Ltd.
Meanwhile in August 2022, a devastating blaze ravaged the home with much of it destroyed and left in piles of rubble.
Pictures capturing the aftermath of the fire showed the impact and spread of the flames. The rest of the building was thereafter demolished.
Since then, the site has seen little to no activity and remained unused up until the end of last year when CCG Scotland Ltd submitted plans to create four new blocks of flats and homes.
The blocks are to take shape in the form of a flattened block, bungalows and a cottage flat.
Included in the development will be associated landscaping, parking and bicycle provision and a community garden.
These plans were approved by West Dunbartonshire Council's planning department in November 2025.
Now, documents set to be discussed by councillors this week reveal the authority is finalising the buy-back of the land for a sum of £370,000, nearly three times what they sold it for in 2021.
CCG Scotland Ltd are offering the purchase on a non-profit basis, with the council paying for the land via Scottish Government grant funding.
If agreed and the purchase goes ahead, it is hoped work on the site which has already gone through pre-development work would begin by this summer.
CCG Scotland Ltd would be granted the contract for construction of the housing in this case.
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