The start of construction on a new £40m leisure centre planned for Hove, East Sussex, is at least four years away, according to a new report.

A project board said that the current King Alfred Leisure Centre is currently outdated and suggested that the council moved plans forward to build a new centre, not necessarily in the same location as the current facility.

New facilities at the proposed centre include a 25-metre pool, large teaching pool and leisure pool.

Both the Coral greyhound racetrack and a site on Ellen Road, Hove, have been suggested as possible sites for the new centre with the council stating that to do so would mean no gap in leisure centre provision and a reduced cost of around £7m.

A planning application would at the earliest be submitted in April 2015 with work starting on construction sometime between April 2017 and July 2018.