Revolutionary proposals for a new multi-million pound inner-city primary school have been approved by planners.

Hartsholme Primary School's 1950s buildings in Carrington Drive, Lincoln, will be bulldozed to the ground and rebuilt in a £4.5m state-of-the-art project.

The thumbs-up was given by planners at a planning and regulatory committee meeting at Lincolnshire County Council yesterday.

Headteacher Carl Jarvis who was integral in the design process said: "It's fantastic news, it's great news for the school and for the community – we are really excited.

"We are ready for it, we've moved out of the buildings which are going to be demolished first.

"Along with all the other plans, we are now looking to get an adventure play centre built."

Mr Jarvis pulled the school out of 'special measures' put in place by Ofsted, just eight weeks after he took over last year.

Now, children at the school will have lessons in underground classrooms, tend to stock on their very own farm and broadcast from an on-site radio station.

The school, which sits on four acres of land, has up until now had no signs of being developed.

But it will soon be jam-packed with creative educational spaces.

The development will beat around what is being called "The Heart" – a glass atrium with floor-to-ceiling windows, flanked with banks of state-of-the-art computers.

The planning committee voted unanimously in favour of the scheme.

Building work is expected to start in April with completion in September 2011.