Plans to develop a leisure hub in East Ayrshire have been unveiled.

Councillors are to consider the creation of the Cumnock Area Leisure Hub at an East Ayrshire Council Cabinet meeting.

If approved, the hub in Cumnock would see East Ayrshire Council and East Ayrshire Leisure Trust collaborating with local communities and sports groups to coordinate sports and cultural provision across the Cumnock area.

With the new £69 million Barony Campus opening to secondary pupils this week, the local community will immediately benefit from some of the finest sports and community facilities in the country, including indoor sports halls, a dance studio, national standard rugby pitches, synthetic grass and grass pitches and a four lane athletics track. The campus also includes a 550 seat concert hall and a range of educational facilities that can be accessed by the community.

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The Sports Village at the Barony Campus would sit at the heart of the Cumnock Leisure Hub and proposals presented to Councillors outline plans to incorporate other existing sporting, leisure and cultural facilities in the area within the Hub, including Visions Leisure Centre, Auchinleck Synthetic Grass Pitches, Merlin Park football grounds, Cumnock Area path network, Auchinleck Boswell Centre and Library, The Baird Institute, Cumnock Town Hall and Cumnock Library.