HOMES will be built on greenfield land.
Councillors on Kirklees’s Huddersfield Planning Sub-committee have voted to allow the Bradley Boulevard site to be sold.
Huddersfield Technical College owns the land, which used to be home to agricultural and horticultural courses.
It wants to use the cash from the sale to pay for a move from its New North Road site to a new centre in the Waterfront Quarter at Chapel Hill.
The sub-committee agreed to the plan by eight votes to three.
Clr Molly Walton, who voted in favour, said the sell-off was important for the college’s future.
The Labour councillor said: “It would be diabolical to vote against this. Surely we all want the college to move on to the Waterfront site.
“We need to look at the magnitude of the issue before us.”
The college is working with Kirklees to develop an outline planning application for the proposed new site at the bottom of Chapel Hill.
Earlier this week college vice-principal Melanie Brooke told the Examiner that if the Waterfront development got the go-ahead classes would continue at the existing site until the new premises were ready.
She added: “If the plans are approved courses would stay at New North Road during the whole of the building period, causing no disruption to classes. “Learners could be studying at a new campus within the next four years.”
