A community radio station is hoping to get the right signal from Dumfries and Galloway Council next week to acquire ownership of its premises.
Alive Community Radio has been working alongside council chiefs to buy the former Lochside Enterprise Workshops in Dumfries for just £1 in a community asset transfer deal.
The council owns the building on Shirley Road but the charity radio organisation broadcasts from one of its units and is currently the only tenant.
While Lochside Enterprise Workshops have been valued at £62,900 by the council, the radio station team has invested even more money in it over the past two years.
Nithsdale area committee has already backed the handing over of the building to Alive Community Radio, however the final say rests with the council’s finance, procurement and transformation committee.
Councillors sitting on the committee will make a decision on Tuesday.
Alive Community Radio was required to submit a business plan to the council detailing how it plans to continue using the building.
Listed as the station’s key personnel are David Macfarlane, trustee and chairman, Adrian Leslie, trustee and finance director, and Hugh Taylor, trustee and secretary.
Their business plan reads: “Alive Community Radio has been on air continually for 12 years. While the present charity took ownership of the station in June 2019, most of the management team and volunteers have been with the station for considerably longer.
“We have a history of working in association with Summerhill Community Centre, running various skills-based training courses and throughout lockdown producing specific radio shows designed to combat loneliness and isolation as well as providing information and entertainment.”
