A once-secret US communications base could be in line for use as housing or tourist accomodation.

The 25-acre Tudor Hill site at Southampton was the site for a hi-tech Cold War listening device that spread out on cables along the seabed from Bermuda, as far afield as Iceland. It has remained empty since the pull out, but has been re-zoned by Government for future residential or tourism use.

Operated by the Bermuda Land Development Company, it is not actively being marketed, but the BLDC say they are open to offers on the land.

At present, Bermuda Digital have been granted permission for an antennae at the site and the Bermuda Biological Station for Research also has an aerial there.

Before the Navy pulled out of Bermuda, Tudor Hill was the centre for a series of deep ocean microphones used to listen for Soviet submarines.