THE site of the former Highdykes Primary School in Bonhill will make way for new social housing.

Councillors agreed to the sale of the land, at Braehead, which is expected to net West Dunbartonshire Council £300,000, during a meeting of the Infrastructure, Regeneration, Economic and Development Committee (IRED) on Wednesday.

AS Homes (Scotland) Ltd, which recently worked with Clydebank Housing Association in on the build of 44 properties, will use the 4.41 acre site to build social houses.

The former primary school closed in June 2015 following a school rationalisation programme which merged Highdykes and Ladyton Primary Schools and relocated them into the former St Ronan’s Primary School building. The property was then demolished in 2016.

The AS Homes offer was the only bid for the site following a marketing campaign which closed in August this year. The firm is now expected to team up with a housing association.

West Dunbartonshire Council also approved proposals to sell off the former Dalreoch House care home, at West Bridgend.

Following a care home rationalisation project the site was declared surplus in February 2013.

And the property was vacated in June this year after completion of the new Dumbarton Care Home, at Crosslet House.