A BUILDING featuring something of a Lerwick landmark on its exterior has gone up for sale. The Garret building, which has the well-known ‘K’ boot sign on its sea-facing end, has an asking price of offers in the region of £225,000. The building, a stone’s throw away from.
THE PREMISES licence holders of a shop, a restaurant and a guest house will be warned over late payment of an annual fee.
The late payment of fees for the Mossbank Shop, and Lerwickâs Phu Siam and Glen Orchy, was discussed at a meeting of the Shetland licensing board on Monday.
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Councillors on the board agreed to send out written warnings over the payments, which are due by October each year. Reminders were sent out by licensing staff.
Members heard that the £220 fee for the Mossbank shop was paid shortly after the matter was raised at the boardâs last meeting on 6 April.
SHETLANDâs licensing board has proposed premises licence reviews for three establishments in the isles which have failed to pay annual fees on time.
The decision of Shetlandâs licensing board on Tuesday relates to Phu Siam and Glen Orchy in Lerwick and the Mossbank Shop.
Councillors were told that the annual fees, which in this case ranged from £220 to £280, were due on 1 October last year.
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Members were told that most of the 149 premises licence holders in Shetland pay the annual fee on time or make arrangements with the boardâs clerks to pay by instalments, but a small number fail to do so.