Plans for an “exciting” regeneration of the former Cardigan hospital have been submitted to council planners following a series of events and a public consultation.

The building closed at the end of 2019 after a long-awaited state-of-the-art multi-million-pound integrated health centre was opened in the town earlier that year.

It was first opened as a hospital in 1922, but now the building is in the hands of Wales and West Housing who are planning to create 35 eco-homes for older people and office space for up to 60 staff on the site.

Following a series of public drop-in sessions on the plans - attended by more than 150 people last February - the housing provider employed award-winning Welsh architects Gaunt Francis to bring the ideas to life.

The housing association said the designs “reflect the architect’s research into the history of the site and the town as well as the many comments and the feedback received from the public and other stakeholders”.

They were presented in a series of events in February and a public consultation was held which ended on 19 May.

Now Wales and West Housing have finalised the “exciting” designs and submitted them to council planners.

The plans, which aim to bring “low-carbon, eco-friendly housing for older people, offices, community facilities and public walk ways to the former hospital site”, will make Priory House on the site the “centrepiece” of the development.

The apartments are designed to reflect the architecture of Priory House and the neighbouring Grade II-listed St Mary’s Church, with a courtyard and cloistered walkways for residents.

The plans include building new offices to the south, linking with Priory House, and creating a regional base for both Wales & West Housing and its in-house maintenance company Cambria Maintenance Services.