FORMER Corsham nightclub The Flamingo could be getting a new lease of life and be transformed into homes, six years after it closed.

Owner Wayne Petty has submitted plans to Wiltshire Council to demolish the existing derelict nightclub along with the two-bedroom flat above it, and turn it into 13 three-bedroom houses, with 27 parking spaces.

The new plans also include a bike bay and front and back gardens for all the three-storey properties.

The club on Westwells Road, closed nearly six years ago, 34 years after first opening as a night club.  

At the time it was run by former Bath Rugby player Chris Lilley, where it become known as Lilleys, but in 2009 he decided not to renew the lease as it was not making enough money.

In 2010 planning permission was approved to convert the building into 13 homes but the application did not go-ahead and the planning permission expired. Before that it was was given the go-ahead to be converted into 15 apartments.

Mr Petty, his brother Glenn and sister Amanda, inherited the club in 1995 after their father Barry died.