Two school sites face demolition
TWO SCHOOLS will be demolished as part of the latest stage of the multi-million-pound reorganisation of Northampton's schools.
Details just released by Northamptonshire County Council show the current Military Road Lower School will be demolished to make way for houses and the infant and junior buildings at Duston Eldean Primary School will be knocked down so a new primary school can be built on the same site.
Plans have been submitted to Northampton Borough Council for the Military Road Lower School scheme.
Under the plans, children would move a few hundred yards down the road to Northampton Middle School's former base at the St George Campus in Barrack Road.
Plans for the demolition and rebuilding of Duston Eldean Primary School will be debated by Northampton Borough Council's planning committee next week. The scheme has been welcomed by planning officers for its 'interesting and innovative design' and councillors have been advised to raise no objections to the plan.
At the same meeting councillors will also discuss plans to demolish four extensions at Kingsthorpe Grove School, so a new car park can be built, and a scheme to build a new school next to the Princess Marina Hospital to replace the existing St Luke's Primary School in Main Road, Duston. All of the plans are part of the on-going 100million scheme to change Northampton's school from a three-tier to a two-tier system.
A final decision on all of the schemes will be made by Northamptonshire County Council, but the borough council has been asked for its views.
Some work under the schools review has already begun but more is due to start in September.
wayne.bontoft@northantsnews.co.uk
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