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Scots common depot
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:ENTRAL Regional Council is exploring lepot based on Greater London Council's It would occupy 10-12 acres of the 724-acre Royal Naval Armaments Depot Bandeath, three and a half miles east of Stirling. The rest of the depot, being closed due to defence cuts, will be redeveloped for industrial and commer.2.ial use.
The transport depot idea was floated by Transport and General 'Workers Union officials who were impressed by the Purley Way depot, and Central Region has put the idea in principle to the Road Haulage Association.
Central publicity officer James Thmeron told the RHA this week: "This is ?robably the best available site in the region."
He listed the site's features as being lear the main Stirling-Grangemouth road, the existence of ample flat parking ground, an engineering shop with adjacent redundant boiler house which :ould serve as an extension, and a 3uilding suitable for conversion into a iostel with catering facilities for drivers.
The council suggests that some of the )utbuildings on the site, which will be eased at attractive prices, could be made wailable to hauliers for storage. The Bandeath site is bounded on three sides by the River Forth and has a quay with a railway crane, but the river is very shallow, and can only be navigated at high tide.
A Ministry of Defence railway is being uprooted and sold for scrap in order to keep the purchase price down, but the trackbed will be preserved should it be found necessary once the area develops.
The Scottish Development Agency has agreed to finance any relaying of rail track.
The SDA is also developing up to eight advance factories on part of the site.
Road access to Bandeath will be improved, most likely by upgrading the B9140 to trunk road standards and by building a £6 million bridge across the Forth to the west of the site.
Such has been the interest in the Bandeath site that the MoD has agreed to allow Central Region in early to modify some of the buildings for commercial use. Most enquiries to date have been from small employers, and 60 per cent have been for commercial rather than manufacturing industry.