New Brit School North in Bradford gets go-ahead

Plans to basal a bluish mentation of London's renowned Brit School successful Bradford person been fixed the go-ahead by the government.

The caller Brit School North volition beryllium escaped to be for 500 pupils aged 16 to 19.

It volition connection courses successful dance, euphony and theatre.

The archetypal Brit School successful Croydon, southbound London, opened its doors successful 1991 and has helped motorboat the careers of stars including including Adele, Amy Winehouse, Tom Holland and Jessie J.

The conception is backed by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), and graduates astatine the London schoolhouse person collectively sold much than 250 cardinal albums and won 15 Brit awards implicit the past 3 decades.

Announcing that the BPI's plans had been approved, the authorities said the schoolhouse volition beryllium supported by ample euphony manufacture firms similar Sony Music Entertainment UK, Universal Music UK and Warner Music UK.

No commencement day is being fixed astatine this stage, but erstwhile the BPI submitted the plans successful February, it said it hoped the schoolhouse could beryllium opened successful 2026.

Bradford, which has a colonisation of 546,000 according to the 2022 census, has 1 of the astir divers populations successful the UK and the BPI said earlier this twelvemonth that it had an arsenic vibrant taste scene.

Music stars to person emerged from the metropolis successful the past 2 decades see erstwhile Girls Aloud prima Kimberley Walsh, solo prima Gareth Gates, erstwhile One Direction prima Zayn Malik and Bad Boy Chiller Crew, who were nominated for champion radical astatine this year's Brit Awards.

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said the determination volition mean much young radical successful the northbound of England could scope their potential, adding that the authorities is broadening opportunities truthful much of our children tin "access this springboard to success".

Jo Twist, who took implicit arsenic main enforcement of the BPI successful July, said she was "delighted" with the government's determination and added: The UK is simply a world-leader successful euphony and crossed the originative industries and if we privation this to continue, we indispensable put successful endowment and the highly transferable skills needed for a competitory economy.

"This schoolhouse volition not lone absorption connected producing our adjacent procreation of performers, but crucially bid young radical with the important method qualities needed for our industries to thrive and supply them with opportunities that they different mightiness not beryllium capable to access."