| Comment | You're talking about the Meanwhile Space program. It's not just Glasgow, they're doing it places like London and Paris too. And they're not buying, they're just renting for £1/year. It's meant to bring life back into areas that have laid empty and allowed to deteriorate for years. https://www.reglasgow.com/creative-solution-to-empty-shops-in-glasgows-historic-heart/
And it's not a councillor, it's the husband of the Council Leader that was involved.
And he didn't buy it (rent it), it's was rented by an art gallery he was a director of. He isn't any more. https://sogoarts.com
The Evening Times covered the story at the time.
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/18575956.snp-council-leader-susan-aitken-cleared-standards-commissioner-husbands-1-rent-deal/
You can dispute whether people should be allowed to rent these properties for £1/year, and you can dispute whether the art gallery should have been allowed to take advantage of the offer, but it wasn't done behind closed doors. It was all very public. And there was legal oversight. |
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