New homes could be built in the grounds of the Royal Northern and Clyde Yacht Club if it moves to a new clubhouse.
The historic club wants to build a new base at Rhu Marina for its members, while its B-listed current home would be converted into nine homes.
And six new-build residential blocks, split into 12 terraced and 25 ‘flatted units’, are planned for the clubhouse site in Rhu.
A pre-application consultation has been lodged with Argyll and Bute Council on behalf of the club by Glasgow agents North Planning and Development.
No further details are available on the council website, and a spokesperson for the authority said the documents would not be available until the decision had been taken to progress to a full application.
The current clubhouse, which dates back to 1857 and sits in 4.6 acres, was put on the market by Savills in 2016.
At that stage the club said plans were ‘well advanced’ for a move to a purpose-built clubhouse at Rhu Marina.
Yacht clubs have been based at the current clubhouse on the Gareloch for nearly 80 years – the Royal Northern moved there from Bute in 1937, and it has been headquarters of RNCYC since clubs merged in 1978.
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