THE school that featured in celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's TV series about junk school dinners is to get a new home.

Eden Primary School, in Peterlee, County Durham, is on a split site, but it is to get a £6.4m building on the site of the former Ellison Road Primary School nearby, Durham County Council's cabinet has decided.

The school and its staff and pupils were featured in the chef's Channel 4 series, Jamie's School Dinners, earlier this year, which sparked a national debate about the type of food served in schools and led to Government action to make it healthier.

The school will have 390 pupils, a 39-place nursery and a Sure Start building and will have facilities to run breakfast, lunch and after-school clubs.

It will have 13 classrooms and an enclosed games area.

The existing school has places for 420 pupils, but has a roll of 338 youngsters.

Some people living near Eden Primary have expressed concern about congestion in Ellison Road from school traffic.

However, councillors heard yesterday that proposals were being drawn up to alleviate the problem.

The council's education director, Keith Mitchell, said the school's junior and infant buildings "are in a very poor state of repair, which impacts on the school's ability to effectively deliver the curriculum.

"The infant building has £286,000 of outstanding repairs which need to be carried out over the next five years to ensure the building remains suitable for education provision. The junior building has £272,000 of outstanding repairs over the same period.''