West Torrens Council votes to sell remaining portion of the Brickworks land to make way for housing, restaurants or shops Brickworks Cellars owner Bea Te at the markets site, which West Torrens Council has voted to sell. WEST Torrens Council has decided to sell its remaining part of the Brickworks site at Torrensville to make way for shops, restaurants or housing. The council voted in confidence last night (Tuesday, November 20) to seek expressions of interest for the 1.8ha site, which includes the heritage kiln. A sale is almost certain to mean the Brickworks Markets will never reopen. The markets closed last month to make way for a $38.5 million Woolworths shopping centre on the other 4.8ha portion of the Ashwin Pde land, next to the traders shed. The 36 remaining traders left the site uncertain of their future, after the council voted in August to consider all options for the market shed part of the land. Chief executive Terry Buss said the site could be used for retail, hospitality or residential development. "Basically the expression of interest is to dispose of the site so we're not putting any sort of development covenants on it," Mr Buss said. What do you think of the council's plan to sell the rest of the Brickworks land? MORE: Councillor defends his Brickworks video The council has allocated $950,000 towards maintenance and restoration works on the State heritage-listed kiln and chimney before a sale, but any buyer would take future responsibility for it. Councillors voted to consider other options for the land's future if there wasn't a 'favourable' bid from developers. Mayor John Trainer said the site's future would be determined by "what the property market would allow." "Depending on the responses (the) council might instead decide to seek a short-term solution to leasing all or part of the property for some purpose," Mr Trainer said. That purpose could include a form of Brickworks Markets. It's my own personal view that if the long-term solution isn't found soon, as part of the short-term solution we need to be getting some sort of income on the property. MORE: Brickworks death knell for traders The council will call for expressions of interest in April 2014. Brickworks Traders Association spokesman Evan Ignatiou the decision was "weak." An expression of interest is not a tender, so I don't know who's going to bother filling out expressions of interest, because it might be a convoluted process to find out they're not going to sell. Mr Ignatiou said traders may look at options to buy the land but would wait to see council documentation first. "By the time they get expressions of interest in, I'd say it will be towards the end of next year before any kind of decision is made even if they do sell it," he said. There's lots of encumbrances on the land - you can't knock over the building (the heritage kiln), you can't really build much else, so I think they're over-estimating the interest. MORE: 800 jobs created in Woolworths construction at Brickworks Brickworks Cellars owner Bea Te held hope the market could reopen if a developer saw its potential or the council struggled to sell the site. Ms Te said restrictions associated with the land, including limits on what could be built around the heritage-listed kiln, and clearance distances from the River Torrens, made the market a good use for the site. Plans for the Woolworths development include a supermarket, BIG W, Dan Murphy's liquor shop and 37 specialty retailers. The centre is expected to be completed in late 2014.