HOUSING developer Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has asked Argyll and Bute Council for permission to build four additional homes on the site of the former Hermitage Academy building at the east end of Helensburgh.

The company wants to build four dwelling houses on a site on Redgauntlet Road, with the location described as “in between [the] School House and Turnbull Pavilion”.

View the application, and associated information, on the council’s website by searching for the code 18/00354/PP.

The housing developer is already working on the construction of 95 new homes on the former Academy site, off Cardross Road, and began taking reservations on Saturday, April 7.

The new homes have asking prices of between £214,000 and £308,000.