Plans are underway to build a £40m community campus in east Manchester.

The 16-acre development project is led by Manchester City Council (MCC) and supported by Manchester City Football Club.

The Beswick Community Hub Masterplan sets out a blueprint for four key initiatives; a new leisure centre with a swimming pool, Connell Sixth Form College (a 600-place sixth form college for 16- to 19-year-olds); the Manchester Institute of Sports Science and Sport Medicine (a research and diagnostic facility) and the Manchester House of Sport (a proposed home for national and international sports bodies).

It also includes proposals for improved shops and changes to the road layout that will join the facilities into one campus.

MCC deputy leader Jim Battle said: "The campus will create new community leisure and educational facilities and jobs. It will provide a vibrant new heart to the area, and a community gateway to the Etihad Campus.

"Taken together, the proposals will maintain the regeneration momentum which is transforming east Manchester and act as a catalyst to attracting further investment and jobs. These remain very exciting times for this part of the city."

The investment in these latest facilities follows the creation of the City Football Academy, Manchester City FC's new youth development complex.