Three council flats in the West End which were used as temporary accommodation are set to be sold to a housing association in a deal worth £850,000.

The properties at Park Road, Woodlands, and Oakfield Avenue, Hillhead, could be taken over by Glasgow West Housing Association.

They were previously among 64 flats used by the council’s former housing service as temporary accommodation.

Known as ‘decant’ flats, they are often used when work needs to be carried out in a home that has become inhabitable, due to incidents such as flooding.  Councillors will be asked to approve selling the three homes to the housing association for £850,000 when they meet on Thursday.

A report by officials stated the flat at 29 Park Road (Flat 0/2) is a three-apartment property on the ground floor of a four-storey tenement, while the two flats at 23 Oakfield Avenue (Flats 1/1 and 2/2) are five-apartment properties on the first and second floor of a tenement.

All the homes lie within conservation areas and the Oakfield Avenue building is category B-listed.

City Property, wholly owned by the council, acquired 40 of the former decant flats while around 20 were sold to housing associations in 2015.

Deals were agreed to “assist the associations in consolidating their ownership, enabling them to adopt factoring of the buildings, protect previous investment, improve property condition and management practices and help to stabilise blocks and areas through diversity of tenure”, the council report stated.

It added title issues for the three flats have now been “resolved” by the council’s legal services team.  The report stated: “The two flats at Oakfield Avenue have been leased via Social Work Services (Health & Social Care Partnership) and will be sold to Glasgow West Housing Association (GWHA) subject to the tenancy arrangements that are currently in place.”

The flat at Park Road is “earmarked for homeless provision” following its sale.

Glasgow West Housing Association has been selected to buy the flat as “it already owns a flat at 29 Park Road” and is the social landlord with “the most significant numbers of social housing stock in the Hillhead area” according to the council. 

Funding for the purchase of the properties cannot be carried over to the next financial year by the housing association, so it is intended to conclude the sales by March 31 this year.