Developers want to invest £100 million in Brighton's former city centre fruit and vegetable market.

The rundown market in Circus Street would be demolished to make way for a showpiece complex of homes and offices, creating more than 600 jobs.

It is the latest major scheme tabled by developers who collectively want to spend hundreds of millions of pounds in the city.

Other prestige projects include a 600ft observation tower on the promenade opposite the West Pier, controversial high-rise flats on the King Alfred site on Hove seafront and an Olympic-standard skating arena at Black Rock, Brighton.

The £70 million complex, called Brighton International Arena, would feature two ice rinks, an 11,000-seat concert hall, a 100-seat cinema, flats, a museum, a recording studio, a dance studio, plus bars, shops and restaurants.

Work in Circus Street could begin next March, turning the site into 180 homes, offices, small industrial units, a new library for the University of Brighton, shops, restaurants, a piazza and dance studios.

Brighton and Hove City Council will consider the scheme, drawn up by the Kent-based Cathedral Group, on April 19.

Cathedral has proposed an eco-friendly complex designed by award-winning architects John McAslan, behind the restoration of the listed De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill.

The Circus Street redevelopment will include a community wind turbine, roofs covered in plants, a rainwater collection and irrigation network, a solar power plant to provide heat and energy and facilities for recycling household waste.

Cathedral chief executive Richard Upton said: "We're thrilled to have been nominated to develop this important area of Brighton, a city with a unique character, a reputation for creativity and an unmistakable soul."

The firm's Alison Moran said: "We are amazed that something like this had not been built in Brighton already, given the kind of city it is and the Green councillors it has. It's the perfect place."

Council leader Simon Burgess said: "This will be a landmark development featuring top quality design. It will be of huge benefit in bringing jobs and much-needed homes.

"We'll go on working closely with people in the Tarner area. This should make a real difference to the quality of residents' lives."