Landforsale

Green fields on the outskirts of Cambuslang have been put up for sale and described as “ripe for development”.

Over 63 hectares of farmland next to Kirkhill Golf Club have been marketed as having “longer term development potential” in a move residents say will threaten the greenbelt. ●Full story page 12

South Lanarkshire Council will implement a confidential waste policy.

Councillors on an executive committee approved the plan, which will help protect sensitive information, last week.

Members were told the authority must have “robust procedures in place for the confidential destruction of its information”.

A confidential waste disposal contract was awarded to paper shredding services in December last year. The contract is currently being rolled out across all business areas of the council.

The policy itself will cover the destruction of information across all formats.

Councillors on the executive were told: “Failure to dispose of confidential waste records containing data and/or sensitive personal data could result in a civil monetary penalty being imposed upon the council by the Information Commissioner.

“With data protection changes in 2018, the maximum level of such penalties is likely to substantially increase.”