A historic oversight is preventing a new build housing development from going ahead.

Urban Union is planning to create 137 new homes as part of a new urban village between Shawbridge and Pollokshaws Road.

But the proposals have hit a problem after plot ‘owners’ Glasgow City Council and Glasgow Housing Association found out that they don’t have the right to sell the entire site.

An investigation has revealed that the land and tenement buildings within it were bought by the now-defunct Corporation of the City of Glasgow in the 1960s.

The Corporation however, didn’t take over ownership of three former flats and a substation.

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In a report, the council’s Executive Director of Regeneration, Richard Brown, said: “It appears that the site was acquired by the Corporation of the City of Glasgow for housing purposes between 1960 and 1967, by a combination of agreed purchases and compulsory purchase.

“The purchases then involved hundreds of acquisitions of mainly former tenement buildings, often house-by-house.

“It has become apparent that for reasons unknown, though presumed to have been oversight due to the number of interests involved overall, the then Corporation of the City of Glasgow failed to take title to the share that three former flats had in two former tenement sites, and to the site of one former substation, at the time.”

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Attempts have been made to locate the last recorded owners but has only been partially successful.

Mr Brown admitted that despite being able to identify some of the successors to the last recorded owners, the council does not have the right to sell the properties.

It means the local authority will have to pursue a compulsory purchase order through the Scottish Parliament.