Take a look around new Wolverhampton training centre

The Wolverhampton Vocational Training Centre opened in September at a temporary home at the former Timken aerospace factory in Upper Villiers Street.

But bosses planned to relocate into a purpose-built site at the Tarmac headquarters and they can now push ahead with the move after the scheme was given the green-light.

An old garage at the site in Millfields Road, Ettingshall, will be refurbished into the training centre's main teaching area and will also include food halls and a kitchen.

Meanwhile a new 'heavy vocational' building will be designed to facilitate training in vehicle maintenance, decorating and construction.

Planning documents, state: "The emphasis is to create a work-like environment that has an industrial aesthetic whilst still providing the required learning spaces to meet the curriculum.

"The vocational areas will have external spaces that directly linked with indoor activities.

"There will be a car holding and manoeuvring area adjacent vehicle maintenance workshop, undercover bricklaying area to provide additional training spaces for construction workshop, as small holdings horticultural area to support animal care studies."

The Wolverhampton Vocational Training Centre is currently the only free school in the country which provides bespoke training courses for people between the ages of 16-18, with special needs.

All students have a Statement of Special Educational Need that reflect learning difficulties, behavioural difficulties, attention deficit and/or hyperactivity disorders.

The curriculum adapts each year to suit students' educational and vocational requirements and to reflect the needs of the local labour market.

At full capacity, the new home will provide space for 50 students and around 20 members of staff.

Designs show land earmarked for sport pitches, fitness areas, outdoor teaching areas, vegetable gardens and a 57-space car park.

Included within the overall masterplan for the old Tarmac site are plans for a new home for the British Sikh School, which have also been approved.

The school aims to open in August 2016 but some facilities such as the sports hall may not be ready until October.

It will boast interactive technology including touch screens and projections, along with an auditorium, with seating for 450 children as well as a stage, lighting and acoustics.

The school aims to have 840 pupils and between 65 and 70 staff by 2022/23. But it will start with 240 pupils in 2016/17, with 120 pupils in Year 7 and 120 pupils in Year 8. This number will then increase in similar intervals each year until all year groups up to Year 13 are present in 2022. All children will be aged between 11 and 18.

The idea is to create an 'educational campus' between the British Sikh School and the Wolverhampton Vocational Training Centre.