Plans for £2.2m temporary primary school approved (From Daily Echo)
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Plans for £2.2m temporary primary school for Whiteley approved
7:09pm Wednesday 23rd January 2013 in News By Echo Reporter
County councillor Roy Perry
COUNTY council education chiefs have backed plans to a new £2.2m temporary primary school to tackle the shortage of places for pupils in Whiteley.
County councillor Roy Perry, Hampshire’s executive lead member for children’ services, today approved proposals for 210-space school on a site owned by the county council next to Lady Betty’s Drive and Leafy Lane.
Children will be taught in temporary classrooms but will have a playground and field.
In the longer term the school will transfer to new permanent buildings in North Whiteley as part of a major new development.
The school will be run by the Church of England’s Winchester and Portsmouth Dioceses with building costs met by the county council. Admission will not be faith-based.
Parents have long campaigned for extra places to cope with ever increasing pupil numbers.
The existing three-form entry primary in Whiteley is over-subscribed and children denied places have had to travel miles out of the development to schools south of the M27.
