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Water Company Land to be Sold at Shrewsbury Collective Auction
February 16, 2012
People wishing to own their own small piece of England or Wales will be given another chance to invest their money by Shrewsbury-based auctioneers Halls in March.
Following the huge success of a collective property auction last October when nine pieces of redundant land owned by Severn Trent Water went under the hammer for between £600 and £8,200, Halls are set to auction another four properties for the company.
The auction will be held at Greenhous Meadow Stadium, home of Shrewsbury Town Football Club, on March 23 at 3pm. This time the four pieces of redundant land are located in North Powys, Worcestershire and Derbyshire.
They include a former pumping station and distribution booster station at Llanbrynmair, near Machynlleth, a former district service reservoir at Hanbury, near Bromsgrove and a former sewage pumping station in the residential area of Mickleover near Derby city centre.
The single storey pumping station building at Pandy, near Llanbrynmair sits on just over quarter of an acre of land with a small single storey garage. The site has a guide price of £12,500.
The former distribution booster station and covered reservoir at Pandy Road, Llanbrynmair has a guide price of £1,500 and covers 0.08 of an acre with a small services kiosk on site.
The former district service reservoir at Pipers Hill, Holmes Lane, Hanbury covers 0.22 of an acre and has a guide price of £1,750. Located on the edge of Hanbury, the site is currently within the Bromsgrove greenbelt and comprises a disused, covered reservoir, a small kiosk, hard standing and grass.
A restrictive covenant prevents this property from being used as a “place of amusement, hotel, tavern or public house” or having a use, which will become a “nuisance, annoyance or disturbance, which might depreciate or lessen the value of the adjoining and neighbouring property”.
A guide price of £1,750 has also been issued for the former sewage pumping station at Melbourne Close, Mickleover, which covers 0.06 of an acre. The pumping station building has been removed but some manholes still remain in the concrete surface, providing access to surface water drains and sewage pipes.
Halls say all four properties have potential for a number of alternative uses, subject to the necessary planning consent.
Halls’ chairman Peter Willcock said: “Based on the result of our last collective auction of redundant land owned by Severn Trent Water in October, we anticipate great interest in these four properties.
“Last time, some people were investing in the latent potential of the land while others just wanted to buy their own a piece of England or Wales. We are delighted that Severn Trent Water has again chosen Halls to promote and sell their property.”
The auction will also include eight privately owned Shropshire properties, ranging from 0.30 of an acre of amenity land with a guide price of up to £15,000 to a period country house with nine acres of land at up to £300,000.
For more information about the auction contact Halls, Welsh Bridge, Shrewsbury on Tel: 01743 28477 or director Allen Gittins at the company’s Ellesmere office on Tel: 01691 622602.
