A youth centre that has sat derelict as houses get built around it could soon be knocked down. 

The building sits in the middle of the redevelopment of the Oakfield Campus in east Swindon, but the former youth centre and sports facility's days look to be numbered.

Swindon Borough Council has applied to knock down The Evening Centre at the corner of Marlowe Avenue and  Greenbridge Road.

The two-storey building features an attached block of offices and a small multi-use games area. But it is behind barriers as the houses being built on the former site of a now-disused university campus and a special educational facility, go up all around it.

The council’s application says: “The Evening Centre is now outdated and no longer serves the needs of the surrounding community or potential new uses.”

It adds that any potentially hazardous material will be stripped out of the building by hand before the main structure of the building is levelled by wrecking machinery.

The triangular patch of land on which the buildings sit is not part of the Oakfield housing development and remains in the possession of Swindon Borough Council – but there is, as yet, no indication of what it, might be used for.

The council tells its planners that any future use would be revealed in a later planning application.

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