A MASSIVE £10 million housing development is planned for an estate in Greenock.

Housebuilder Persimmon Homes wants permission to construct 61 new properties at Kingston Dock and has submitted its application to the council.

The bid is part of the next phase of the development at the former shipyard site.

Persimmon are looking for the go-ahead to build a mixture of two, three and four bedroom homes on land off Flax Way and Crunes Way.

If given the green light, there would be a mix of detached, semi-detached and terraced properties constructed.

It is the third phase of the developer’s transformation of the former Scott Lithgow yard, near to the new Port Glasgow retail park.

A spokeswoman for Persimmon told the Tele: “The Kingston Dock phase three is a new development of 61 two, three and four bedroom homes with prices starting from £125,000.

“With the Help to Buy scheme this is reduced to £100,000, with a deposit of £6,250 and a monthly mortgage of £419.53.

“The cost of the planned development is just over £10 million.” Persimmon say the new houses would be similar in style to the properties it has already built during other phases of its Kingston Dock project.

The proposals are now in the hands of council officials and a decision will be made by councillors at a later date.

Persimmon’s bid comes just a week after the Scottish Government rejected an application for a 17-house extension to Kingston Dock.

Land owner Clydeport had their application for a development at Lithgow Way, close to Iron Way, rejected by the Scottish Government after an original bid to the council’s planning board was also knocked back in September.

The site in question had previously been earmarked for commercial development and it was decided it should remain that way.