The iconic Kaleidoscope building in Kingston town centre is likely to become a nursery, gym or school, according to its owner.

The building in Cromwell Road will soon be rented out to a commercial company and its current occupants, Straight Talking, may not fit in with the new layout.

Kaleidoscope, which provided drug and alcohol misuse services in the borough, moved out after a series of run-ins with Kingston Council and the former primary care trust, but the national charity still owns its old building.

Martin Blakebrough, chief executive of Kaleidoscope, said: “We are in discussions with a number of different people.

“We are looking at what their proposals are.

“We are hopeful we will have someone soon.

“We want to keep Straight Talking in.

"We are talking and we definitely want to find a way to help them stay.

“But the reality is if someone wanted the whole building it could be difficult.”

Straight Talking, a charity that employs teenage mothers and fathers to talk to younger people about pregnancies, declined to comment.

Mr Blakebrough previously told the Surrey Comet the building could be put to use for residential purposes involving vulnerable people but this does not seem likely now.

He said: “It would almost certainly be a commercial business – a nursery, a gym, or a school. These are the most likely.

"As a charity we have to get the best possible option for the building.

“Any money that is made from the building will be put back to services in Kingston.”

Kaleidoscope currently runs Alfriston Day Centre in Berrylands Road, Surbiton, which cares for the elderly and it also runs another hostel for vulnerable people in the borough.

Addaction, a charity which previously worked out of the Cromwell Road site, was also given its marching orders last year when it lost an NHS contract to provide mental health and substance misuse services.