Golf ball building up for sale

An entrepreneur has been trying to whip up interest in the sale of a former Nato communications facility in Kinross known locally as “The Golf Ball”.

The 60ft fibreglass spherical structure at Balado Bridge, which houses a huge satellite dish, was bought by Bob Ferguson for over £500,000 after it was decommissioned in 2006 and he is now looking to sell it on the market for £1.1 million.

A guardhouse, office building, ground station and other outbuildings are included in the asking price, along with about nine acres of land, which was used as an airfield during the Second World War.

Mr Ferguson this week revealed how he was warned when he first expressed an interest in the site years ago that the development opportunity might be too costly.

“I was politely told that my pockets were not deep enough to buy it,” he was reported as saying.

“I forgot about, it but when I came back a few years later I went up to Kinross to look at it. The ‘for sale’ sign was still there.

“I asked if it still belonged to the [Ministry of Defence] and discovered it was up for sale again.

“I phoned the powers-that-be and was told that they would listen to the first person to come along with the cash.

“I said, ‘Well, I’m your man’.”

Colin Jenkins, founder of Amazing Results, the estate agency marketing the property, said: “It is an iconic site situated where T In The Park used to be.

“It has a variety of uses, from its current set-up, to storage, to a pitch and putt.”

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