Two parcels of council-owned land near a train station are set to be sold off if its leaders give approval this week.

Council leaders are being asked to approve the sale of the land behind the Sytner BMW garage and Shorts plant and tool hire on Lyndhurst Road in Ascot.

Proposals say the land is ‘surplus’ to the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead’s requirements, and that selling them will help the council’s dire financial position.

In contrast the proposals say that the income that could be gained from leasing the land is ‘negligible’.

If the parcels of land aren’t sold, council documents say, then they will continue to cost the Royal Borough money.

There are no buildings on the land, which currently appear to be in use by Sytners and Shorts. Details of the sell-offs, including proposed buyers and prices, are being kept confidential.

But council plans do suggest the deal would enable Sytners to install electric vehicle charging points. They suggest that sale prices have provisionally been agreed but that contracts are still to be drawn up.

Council leaders on the Royal Borough’s cabinet committee are being asked to approve the sell offs at a meeting on Wednesday, October 30.