AN application has gone into Teignbridge Council planners to build 36 new homes on the site of the former Community Resource Centre in Kingsteignton.

The Devon County Council run centre, in Greenhill Road, closed in 2012 and has remained empty ever since.

Kingsteignton Town Council had hoped to buy the building and land in an effort to create a community and civic centre as well as saving one of the last remaining green spaces in the town from development, but reluctantly pulled out two years ago because of the cost.

At the time the council’s finance committee chairman Cllr Rob Harris told a meeting that he had looked into the possibility of taking out a £300,000 loan from the Public Works Loan Board over 15 to 18 years.

This figure had been a previous valuation given to the council but Cllr Harris feared that it would be higher.

Faced with options, councillors had agreed not to press ahead with a financial bid but to look at working with developers and Teignbridge Council to secure something for the community.

Now the proposals for the site have been submitted on behalf of a client by Mike Hughes, of Narracotts Architects, Torquay.

The development is for 36 two, three and four bedroom houses, and Kingsteignton Town Council will discuss the proposals at a future meeting and then make its views known to the district authority.