Plans have been submitted for new secondary and special school facilities as part of a pioneering £400 million rebuilding programme.

The new buildings on the grounds of Beckfoot School in Bingley are set to be completed by 2007 if Bradford Council planners give the go ahead.

A new special school will be opened on the site and Beckfoot's existing buildings will be demolished once the new secondary school at Wagon Lane is completed.

The plans for the new school building and special school are part of Bradford Council's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme which will see all 28 secondaries in the district rebuilt or refurbished.

The first two phases of the project will see six secondary schools demolished and replaced with state-of-the-art school facilities.

The first schools to be demolished will be Salt Grammar in Baildon, Tong School in Westgate Hill Street and Buttershaw High School.

Beckfoot School will be in the second phase of the project along with Greenhead High School in Keighley and Grange Technology College in Haycliffe Lane.

All three of these will have new special schools located on their sites as part of a district wide re-organisation of special educational needs.

Ten special schools will be replaced with six new schools - three primary and three secondary - sharing mainstream sites.

Bradford was chosen as one of just four authorities across the country to pioneer the BSF programme.

Bradford Council is currently considering three bids from companies which have applied to be the developer for the £400 million project.

A Council spokesman said a decision was expected by mid-November.

Councillor Dale Smith, the executive member for education, said: "This is a massive re-building programme and the bids are being evaluated.

"When that has been decided there will be plans and we will be having discussions with the schools.

"We in Bradford are something of a trailblazer. We are feeding information back to the Department for Education and Skills outlining the pitfalls and the challenges so that other authorities will learn by our endeavours."

The aim of the BSF project is to provide school environments developed to meet the educational and physical needs of pupils and staff.

A Council spokesman the schools will be built to "21st century standards" and would be constructed without schools closing down.

Teachers, parents staff and governors will be consulted to help develop the plans at the schools.

An outline planning application for the development at Beckfoot School was submitted to Bradford Council last week

But more detailed designs for the new schools will need to be approved by the Council's planners before building work can begin.