COUNCILLORS will be asked on Thursday to approve a floating eco-centre and fish farm for young offenders.

Kirklees Council wants to build the £1.5m centre in Heckmondwike.

If planning permission is granted, it would be the first place in the country to test floating buildings as a way of combating flooding.

The centre would be built on 4.5 hectares at a disused site off Walkley Lane near the Ponderosa animal centre. It would include a fishing lake and a coffee shop.

The centre would employ 12 people and 30 offenders would work there to learn about fish farming.

One resident has objected.