CLIC Sargent have announced they have a property developer willing to pay them £1.75m for Malcolm Sargent House.

It is assumed the holiday home will be knocked down for the purposes of building retirement flats but this has not yet been confirmed.

The group of seven volunteers who call themselves M7, dedicated to saving Malcolm Sargent House, are even more determined to build a brand new holiday home for children and young people with cancer and life altering illnesses.

M7 say they had their own valuations carried out only a few weeks ago and as a charity they were very low, as a house the value was £850,000, and as commercial land it was £1million maximum. 

They are now bringing back the fireworks at the Ayr Racecourse, after four years, for the #BUYMSH APPEAL.

Since June 6, when plans were announced to close the house, M7 have been trying to save the house and changed strategy to buy the holiday home on July 27 when it was announced the house was definitely closing.

But this has been deemed 'unfeasible' after CLIC Sargent announced they have a property developer willing to pay £1.75 million.
The group now want to build a new holiday home for children and young people with cancer and life altering illnesses.

Media spokeswoman Maxine Allan said: "We can't use the money donated to us from the community to pay an overvalued figure for a property. 

"The house requires work too, not just renovation work but work to bring the house in line with regulations to today's standards. 

"In order for us to open the new MSH to children and young people with cancer and to those same children with life altering illnesses we would need to spend a large percentage of monies on these renovations.'' 

"CLIC aren't willing to come down to our valuations and we cannot, in the interest of the children agree to an overinflated figure of 1.75 million. 

"But we know that this service provision is totally vital - it's a holiday respite facility that needs to be kept in Ayrshire. Something we can't let go. 

"And for this reason we have decided to build a new one - a 21st century MSH incorporating all the love, passion, care and atmosphere that the original house offered. 

"We understand people will be upset - we have spoken to many families who have visited MSH over the years, yesterday and today and they understand and want to support this new facility. 

"We are heartbroken about the house and believe us we did try every eventuality."

The Ayr Racecourse Fireworks will be a ticketed event at £5. There will be more information on their Facebook page BUY MSH.