 The council is to sell off its surplus property to raise funds |
Scottish Borders Council has drawn up a strategy to sell off surplus property and raise �10m over the next two years. Schools which have been closed or moved will be first to go on the market but other premises are under review.
The asset strategy has also questioned the future of the region's swimming pools, which were transferred to a leisure trust four years ago.
A total of six closed Borders primary schools are expected to go up for sale before the end of the year.
They will be followed by the sites of three high schools - Eyemouth, Berwickshire and Earlston - which are being rebuilt at new locations.
The authority has also embarked on a review of the properties it owns.
Part of the goal is to reduce council office space by 20% by 2011 and 40% by 2016.
Strategy options
One suggestion in the strategy is to consider renegotiating the terms of the agreements set up for running the region's swimming pools.
That could allow some of them to be "taken out of use in the medium term".
Other options include the possibility that some parks or depots could be sold for development - including Hawick nursery.
Council bosses have insisted that nothing has been decided but the strategy document has been agreed by the council executive.
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