Dumfries and Galloway council spend around £800,000 a year on leasing 29 properties. 

The properties across the region range from a fire station to a park pavilion.

The BBC report:

The local authority agreed earlier this year to try to move staff out of such buildings and into sites it owns.

However, it still leases a number of properties including museums, community halls, libraries and public toilets.

In response to a BBC Freedom of Information request it declined to reveal individual rents but said the total was £797,858.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.