Plans for a £29.9 million rebuild of a Bradford school look set to be approved next week as the last of the district’s Building Schools for the Future projects to receive funding before the Government abandoned the programme.

Work at Dixons Allerton Academy is already scheduled to start in January to replace the current building, subject to planning permission being granted by Bradford Planning Panel on Thursday.

The new through-age academy for three to 19-year-olds has been designed to accommodate 1,200 secondary pupils, 240 sixth form students, 440 primary pupils and to house a 39-place nursery.

It will cover 14,600 square metres on land adjacent to the existing school buildings in Oaks Lane. The school will remain open during construction but will be demolished when the new buildings are completed, ready to open in September 2013.

The old site will make way for sports facilities, including state-of-the-art pitches, which will also be available for local community use.

Permission was granted last year to demolish some of the buildings which are grade II listed after English Heritage decided not to submit a formal objection. Prior notification approval was granted in July for the demolition of all the buildings.

Two months ago it was announced that Wates Construction had been selected by the local education partnership Integrated Bradford as the preferred bidder for the build.

Councillor Ralph Berry, the Council’s executive member with responsibility for education, said: “The Council and its partners have worked very hard to get to the position where we can deliver this new building for the school, and I am pleased to see it moving forward.”

He added that the school had done very well this year with a substantial improvement in performance. He also said that it was hoped that through-age academies would achieve an “educational lift” because children do not have to change school at 11.

The meeting takes place in Bradford’s City Hall, on Thursday, from 9.45am.