BRADFORD College will be able to install a training restaurant on its city centre campus after planners gave the scheme the green light.

Earlier this year, the college revealed plans to boost its hospitality training facilities by installing a new street food kitchen and seating area on a section of green space next to its David Hockney Building on Great Horton Road.

The work will also include a new entrance to The Grove – a training restaurant based in the building.

The scheme was part of a wider £3.5m Government investment into facilities at the college that would allow students to study T levels, a qualification introduced in 2020.

The works have now been approved by planning officers.

The college’s application said the street food stall and the remodelled restaurant would be used “by the college students to gain real work experience in busy environment – providing food for staff/ students during the day as well as evening/weekend use for the public/events.”

The work now been approved, with planning officers saying “The proposal is deemed a positive addition to the local built environment and to aid the wider educational uses of Bradford College. It would be deemed unlikely to result in significant harm to the wider built environment or residential amenity.”