Young artists from a Bradford primary school have designed a contemporary illuminated sculpture to go beside a main road leading into the city.

The Trident regeneration project, which is breathing new life into the Marshfield end of the city, has applied for planning permission for the sculpture at the junction of Manchester Road and Ransdale Road.

Newby Primary School worked with sculptor Marcela Livingston to design the artwork to stand on public open space.

The school has commissioned its own replica to stand in the school grounds as a permanent reminder that youngsters took part in one of the city's most important art projects.

Now Trident is waiting for planning consent for the main sculpture and hopes the work can be finished by next month.

The application follows another bid for planning permission for an illuminated sculpture by artist Walter Jack, which would have stood in Manningham Lane.

But the regulatory and appeals committee unanimously rejected the application for the £110,000 Geoblossom sculpture.

One member said he believed it should stand on the waste tip at Dowley Gap, Bingley, instead.

Trident project manager Judith Atkinson said the filigree cast iron column was based on the theme Circle of Life and celebrated three top awards for the Bradford regeneration scheme in the Government's national New Deal for Communities national awards.

She said the sculpture would be paid for by the £3,000 prize money and contributions from the school and Trident.

Mrs Jackson said they had brought Miss Livingston in to work with the youngsters on a major work of public art.

Newby headmaster Michael Latham said the artist had worked with a team of about ten of the school's most motivated and gifted children.

"We have already got permission for one in the school grounds which will be a permanent reminder," he added.

Miss Livingston, who has created artwork across Britain, trained at the Sir John Cass School of Art, London College of Printing and St Martin' s School of Art.

Her previous work includes cast iron swallow railings for Gateshead sculpture park and dragon-themed sculptures for Dragon School, Oxford.

She said: "The kids were brilliant. They were able, intelligent and sparkly-eyed and they lapped it up.

"They had a lot of control and it was a truly collaborative project."

l The Trident scheme was set up with the help of a multi-million pound award from the Government's New Deal for Communities Fund.

The organisation achieved a hat-trick last year when it was named partnership of the year; board chairman Ian Greenwood was councillor of the year and it won an award for its housing facelifts.