WILTSHIRE College has put the Devizes campus up for sale as it pushes ahead with plans to stop classes at the site in December.

Principal Amanda Burnside announced in July that the campus close to Devizes School would close at the end of the autumn term but the college would try and find different venues for some classes.

Commercial property agents Whitmarsh Lockhart from Swindon are now marketing both the Devizes campus and one in Warminster which is also to shut before Christmas. It says there is potential for alternative uses subject to planning.

Ms Burnside said in July: "Regrettably, due to the long term decline in adult funding we can no longer maintain the centres in Devizes and Warminster.

“However, we have been identifying alternative venues for our part time offering."

But this week it emerged that the only course to remain in Devizes will be art.

This week a college spokesman said: "We have made every effort to retain an offering in Devizes, and as a result our hugely popular art course will continue to run in the area, at the Nursteed Centre, from January.

“Meanwhile, moving our languages and photography courses to our Chippenham campus has been met with largely positive feedback from students who are looking forward to being able to using the library on the campus in particular.

"In addition, we have found that many students actually live closer to Chippenham than to Devizes.

“We do recognise that for some students closing the Devizes centre is not ideal. However, should there be sufficient demand for a particular course in the area we would be happy to look into finding a venue to run it from. Those interested in taking a course in the area should contact info@wiltshire.ac.uk.”

But people who spoke out about the closure in the summer were most concerned about the loss of courses teaching basic English and maths.

At the time one of those who spoke out was Jill Owen who said: "People with school age children who want to improve their basic English or maths could go to Devizes during school hours but will not have time to travel far."