Plans for the Vale Community Campus were unveiled at the Pewsey Area Board meeting on Monday night.

The new building is part of Wiltshire Council scheme to build campuses across the county to house a variety of council and partnership services in one location.

The Vale Community Campus will include the library in the centre of Pewsey and a new building, which will join the sports centre and Pewsey Vale School on Wilcot Road.

The Pewsey community area, including Pewsey Vale School, has been working with the council on the campus since 2011. Plans were drawn up by B3 Architects.

It will house a new fitness studio, squash court, sports hall, indoor wheeled sports area, cafe, meeting rooms and many other facilities which will be available for public use.

The swimming pool will also be revamped, the gym will be made 50 per cent bigger and the car parking facilities will also be increased.

Curly Haskell, chairman of the Pewsey area campus team said: “I was encouraged by the questions that were asked at the meeting and the way it was received. It’s a very exciting project.

“We’ve called it The Vale because we wanted to encompass all the other villages with it as well and that’s really what all of this is about.”

There will be a police storage, locker space and search room. Inspector Matt Armstrong said: “The intention for the campus is for the neighbourhood policing team, based currently in the centre of the village, to move into the campus and use the hot desking facilities there.

“The idea around hot desking and having that facility is so that we are working closely with other partners who will also be using that.”

Plans for the campus building are on display from now until the end of the month at Pewsey Library and sports centre, at Burbage Market and Meet on September 27 and a Rushall coffee morning in the village hall on October 4.

A planning application is due to be submitted in the coming weeks and work is expected to start next year with the building being completed in the summer of 2016.

Area board chairmamn Coun Jerry Kunkler said: “I think it’s great that we’ve got to this point finally after three years of chewing it away and it’s going to be a great asset to the school.”

To view the plans online visit www.pewsey.ourcommunitymatters.org.uk