The Peel Group has submitted detailed plans for the development of a new leisure quarter in Gloucester, which will involve a £60m expansion of the Gloucester Quays Outlet Centre.

Gloucester City Council will decide the fate of the proposals, which are centred on the city's historic docks area and will create The Quayside leisure and shopping destination.

Plans incorporate 11 restaurants; a 10-screen cinema with seating for 1,600 people; and new retail units. It is hoped that work will begin on site early next year.

Due for completion in autumn 2013, an existing cinema at the Peel Centre retail park would then be converted into additional retail space as part of the Peel Group's proposals.

Gloucester Quays PR and marketing manager Alison Tennant said: "We don't want people in Gloucester to feel like they have to leave the city for a good night out or to go to the cinema. The Quayside will give them fantastic facilities right on their doorstep."