The local authority is seeking to deliver 24 houses and 36 flats, including six wheelchair-accessible flats, on the area of land off Salters Road. 

East Lothian Council revealed early plans for the site towards the end of last year.

A planning application has been lodged with the local authority’s planning department.

The project team includes contractor CCG (Scotland) Ltd, architect Smith Scott Mullan, civil and structural engineer Bayne Stevenson Associates, mechanical and electrical engineer Hawthorne Boyle, planning consultant Scott Hobbs Planning, principal designer Thomson Gray, energy advisor Carbon Futures and landscape architect Wardell Armstrong.

A spokesperson for East Lothian Council said: “We have submitted a planning application for 60 new council homes on the site of the former Wallyford Primary School site.

“The properties will be a mixture of one, two, three and four bedroom flats and houses, and designed to be accessible for varying needs.

“The development also includes parking, EV charging points and new and enhanced green spaces.

“Subject to planning permission being granted, we hope to complete the properties during 2026/27, providing additional much-needed affordable housing in the area.”

All of the homes in the development are classed as affordable, with the range of property sizes allowing for “a variety of residents to benefit from this development, whilst growing and enhancing the wider community”.

As well as two-storey terraced and semi-detached homes, the development would include four-storey flats which, according to a design and access statement, would “sit more comfortably due to the level changes that occur across the site”.

The former home of Wallyford Primary School closed in 2019 and was demolished the following year.

The school, which is now based on nearby Masons Way, had sat on the site since the early 1950s.

A public consultation event was held last year with another meeting earlier this month.