A second driving test centre is on the way to Wolverhampton for cars and motorcycles. The Driving Standards Agency wants to open the branch in Ettingshall.

It would be in Spring Road on the site of a sports field formerly used by Windsor Nursery School. The site would be open from 7.30am to 7.30pm Monday to Saturday and would be in addition to the existing test centre in Ashland Street, Merridale.

Sport England says it will not object to the creation of the centre, as long as the DSA agrees to hand the city council a compensation payment for losing a playing field.

The award of £112,000 would go towards improving other playing areas across the city as a result of the loss of cricket wickets at the Spring Road fields.

Rugby-based Greatline Development is behind the application.

Wolverhampton Council officers have recommended the planning committee grant delegated approval at a meeting on Tuesday.

Plans for the centre have been criticised because it would mean building over the fields, but planning chiefs have received seven letters of support.

They say it will boost the local economy and reduce the need to travel to DSA centres out of the city.