IT is the cycle cafe and social enterprise which started as a Hampshire teenager's daydream.

But after months of work and industry support, Winchester's Handle Bar Cafe looks set to become reality.

Youngsters' ambitious plans for a cafe and repair shop on Viaduct Way, near Hockley Viaduct, will go on display next month.

Teenagers from the SPUD Youth project took over ArchitecturePLB's city offices last month to design and model the cafe and turn it into a viable business plan.

The distinctive design – a train carriage split in two to echo the viaduct’s locomotive past – is the brainchild of teenager Alex Grice, of Woodfield Drive. He created early sketches as a schoolboy with workshop charity SPUD Youth.

The group then enlisted the help of city architects, designers, councillors, business leaders and university students to make them work. Winchester City Council has expressed keen interest in helping realise the plans and SPUD hopes to use the new facility to provide work opportunities for students and the homeless.

On June 8 and 9, residents can view models and drawings, meet the youngsters behind them and ask questions.

The exhibition runs at ArchitecturePLB, in St Thomas Street, from 9am to 4pm on both days.

For more information visit spudyouth.org.