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Council selling off house with 'serious defects'
Hamilton Advertiser
|June 04, 2026
A council house in Bothwell with serious structural problems is to be sold off after repair costs were found to be more than double the property's market value.
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The former tenant of the two-bedroom property at 13 Morven Way raised concerns about cracks throughout the building and the overall condition of the property - and was permanently rehoused.
The property has been lying empty ever since, and was set to go before South Lanarkshire Council's housing and technical resources committee on June 3, where councillors were due to be asked to approve the disposal of the house on the open market.
The single-storey end terrace house, which was built in 1960, was flagged after the tenant's concerns prompted a full structural assessment.
This story is from the June 04, 2026 edition of Hamilton Advertiser.
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