Planners are expected to give the go-ahead for more than 600 homes across five major developments.

Officers have recommended that all five applications – including controversial plans on fields at Keighley and Steeton – are approved at a meeting on Monday.

In Bradford city centre, a seven-storey student development, containing 160 studio flats, could be built on a car park at Salem Street.

Planning officers described the site as a “vacant, dilapidated plot of land” in a prominent position near the inner ring road.

They said although it was in a conservation area, the contemporary building suggested by developer Elements Construction would be “agreeable”.

In Wyke, Bradford, Persimmon Homes has applied to build 115 homes next to the Bradford Bulls ground, where a previous scheme stalled because of the economic downturn.

The 2.7-hectare brownfield site next to Odsal Stadium, in Rooley Avenue, has been lying vacant since a former hospital was pulled down.

Persimmon has applied to build a mixture of two, three and four-bedroom detached, semi-detached and terraced houses.

The developer of a Steeton housing estate is seeking to alter the number of homes it is building for a second time.

Redrow Homes, which has already started building the development on fields off Thornhill Road, got permission last month to reduce the total number of homes from 220 to 209.

The company now wants to reduce this further, to 206 homes.

A controversial scheme to build up to 135 houses on a 4.8-hectare greenfield site at Shann Lane, Keighley, also looks set to be approved.

Neighbours and Keighley Town Council had objected to the outline plan, saying it could increase the risk of flooding in the area.

A decision was deferred in February, when councillors told the applicants – the trustees of the Chatsworth Estate – to provide more information about flooding and access to the site.

The trust say their scheme would reduce the flood risk, rather than increase it.

And an application to build 14 flats on a steep banking near Bingley town centre is also recommended for approval.

Pearl Northern Developments Jersey has applied to build the one and two-bedroom flats on the site of a former garage at the junction of Edward Street and Mornington Road.

Councillors are due to make a decision on the five planning applications at the next meeting of the Regulatory and Appeals Committee, on Monday at 10am at City Hall.