Two Huddersfield schools have been given the go-ahead for expansion and improvements.
Kirklees councillors granted planning permission for a £7.9m primary school at Royds Hall Community School in Paddock.
The Luck Lane school will see a new primary school built in the east of the school grounds that will eventually cater for 420 children. It is in addition to the 862-intake high school on the same site.
Clr Graham Turner said: “We are desperately short of school places in the area and we definitely need a school.”
Meanwhile, councillors also approved an extension and alterations to existing Almondbury Junior School on Southfield Road.
It is to become a new special education needs school for 164 children.
Kirklees is relocating the provision from Lydgate School to Almondbury. The children once at Almondbury were relocated to an all-through school on the high school site as part of a school restructure.
