Brighton and Hove is likely to get a £50 million makeover with schools, housing, transport and coastal protection in line for massive cash injections.

The city council's policy committee is likely to approve a capital programme of £51 million to be spent over the next financial year.

Main areas for investment are £18.2 million on housing, £10.3 million in schools, £8.5 million for coast protection and £6.8 million on transport.

Among schemes to receive the money are renovations to Knoll House Resource Centre and the new Goldstone Primary School in Hove. Money will also be spent on improving the Regency and Brunswick conservation areas and further improvements to the waste collection service.

Big changes are envisaged for Portslade Community College while much of the housing money will be spent on improving the existing stock.

The council is also putting £2 million in a strategic investment fund which meets some of its top priorities.

In the current financial year, this is being spent on the King Alfred leisure centre project, shoring up cliffs at the Marina, financing the City Direct better information service, preparing for the community stadium at Falmer, improving Madeira Drive, renovating the museum and a loan to help pay for renovating the Dome.

Chief finance officer Chris Taylor said the council had also worked out ways of spending millions more on investment in the city without having to use its own money.

He said: "It has achieved this by working in partnership with the private sector and public bodies whereby the capital investment is undertaken and accounted for by the private sector."

Examples include up to £50 million on the new central library, secondary school extensions costing £20 million and redeveloping the Dome complex at a cost of £34 million. More money will be spent on Preston Barracks.

Proposed schemes to follow include redevelopment at the King Alfred, the Brighton Centre and Black Rock but no figures are yet available.

The huge waste management project now envisaged will cost £140 million while if the West Pier redevelopment and restoration goes ahead, another £30 million will be ploughed into the city.

Adam Trimingham adam.trimingham @theargus.co.uk