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Site preparations for new Huntlee high school to begin as stage two awaits approvals
The first site preparation works for a new high school at Huntlee, promised in 2023 as part of a state significant development of thousands of new homes there, began this week after the developer was granted initial approvals.
It comes as stage two of the Huntlee development, which will mean some 5000 new homes at Branxton, awaits approval and funding from last month's state budget.
The public primary and high school in the rapidly growing area will serve the communities of Branxton, Huntlee and North Rothbury. It is slated for Reading Road and Personia Boulevard, with the primary school to include a pre-school.
Huntlee is planned to house 20,000 people. The 2021 Census showed the areas population had grown from 900 to 2300 in five years.
Classes are expected to begin in 2028, a spokesman for the NSW Education Department said.
Testing and investigations began in May to inform the schools' designs, which remain in development.
Once planning approval is received and a contractor is onboard, construction work will begin.
"The project is currently in the planning and design stages. We will keep the community informed as the project progresses," the spokesman said.
In the 2024-2025 budget, the state announced plans to create 100 new co-located pre-schools across the state and set aside $630,000 to deliver a kindergarten to year 8 school in Huntlee.
Across the state, the government will invest $9 billion in school infrastructure over four years for new and upgraded schools.
New schools were promised by the Labor state government in 2023 after parents in the burgeoning suburban hub raised concerns that the estate lacked needed facilities.
"We were told Huntlee is this wonderful new town designed for 20,000 people, which is all well and good, but this town and its residents deserve education facilities," parent Lee-Anne Moore told the Cessnock Advertiser in 2023.
"Given Huntlee will be home to 20,000 people, a similar size to Singleton, we need these education facilities, first a high school and then a primary school, to be built, and built now."
The NSW Department of Planning was contacted for comment.
The first site preparation works for a new high school at Huntlee, promised in 2023 as part of a state significant development of thousands of new homes there, began this week after the developer was granted initial approvals.
It comes as stage two of the Huntlee development, which will mean some 5000 new homes at Branxton, awaits approval and funding from last month's state budget.
The public primary and high school in the rapidly growing area will serve the communities of Branxton, Huntlee and North Rothbury. It is slated for Reading Road and Personia Boulevard, with the primary school to include a pre-school.
Huntlee is planned to house 20,000 people. The 2021 Census showed the areas population had grown from 900 to 2300 in five years.
Classes are expected to begin in 2028, a spokesman for the NSW Education Department said.
Testing and investigations began in May to inform the schools' designs, which remain in development.
Once planning approval is received and a contractor is onboard, construction work will begin.
"The project is currently in the planning and design stages. We will keep the community informed as the project progresses," the spokesman said.
In the 2024-2025 budget, the state announced plans to create 100 new co-located pre-schools across the state and set aside $630,000 to deliver a kindergarten to year 8 school in Huntlee.
Across the state, the government will invest $9 billion in school infrastructure over four years for new and upgraded schools.
New schools were promised by the Labor state government in 2023 after parents in the burgeoning suburban hub raised concerns that the estate lacked needed facilities.
"We were told Huntlee is this wonderful new town designed for 20,000 people, which is all well and good, but this town and its residents deserve education facilities," parent Lee-Anne Moore told the Cessnock Advertiser in 2023.
"Given Huntlee will be home to 20,000 people, a similar size to Singleton, we need these education facilities, first a high school and then a primary school, to be built, and built now."
The NSW Department of Planning was contacted for comment.
The first site preparation works for a new high school at Huntlee, promised in 2023 as part of a state significant development of thousands of new homes there, began this week after the developer was granted initial approvals.
It comes as stage two of the Huntlee development, which will mean some 5000 new homes at Branxton, awaits approval and funding from last month's state budget.
The public primary and high school in the rapidly growing area will serve the communities of Branxton, Huntlee and North Rothbury. It is slated for Reading Road and Personia Boulevard, with the primary school to include a pre-school.
Huntlee is planned to house 20,000 people. The 2021 Census showed the areas population had grown from 900 to 2300 in five years.
Classes are expected to begin in 2028, a spokesman for the NSW Education Department said.
Testing and investigations began in May to inform the schools' designs, which remain in development.
Once planning approval is received and a contractor is onboard, construction work will begin.
"The project is currently in the planning and design stages. We will keep the community informed as the project progresses," the spokesman said.
In the 2024-2025 budget, the state announced plans to create 100 new co-located pre-schools across the state and set aside $630,000 to deliver a kindergarten to year 8 school in Huntlee.
Across the state, the government will invest $9 billion in school infrastructure over four years for new and upgraded schools.
New schools were promised by the Labor state government in 2023 after parents in the burgeoning suburban hub raised concerns that the estate lacked needed facilities.
"We were told Huntlee is this wonderful new town designed for 20,000 people, which is all well and good, but this town and its residents deserve education facilities," parent Lee-Anne Moore told the Cessnock Advertiser in 2023.
"Given Huntlee will be home to 20,000 people, a similar size to Singleton, we need these education facilities, first a high school and then a primary school, to be built, and built now."
The NSW Department of Planning was contacted for comment.
The first site preparation works for a new high school at Huntlee, promised in 2023 as part of a state significant development of thousands of new homes there, began this week after the developer was granted initial approvals.
It comes as stage two of the Huntlee development, which will mean some 5000 new homes at Branxton, awaits approval and funding from last month's state budget.
The public primary and high school in the rapidly growing area will serve the communities of Branxton, Huntlee and North Rothbury. It is slated for Reading Road and Personia Boulevard, with the primary school to include a pre-school.
Huntlee is planned to house 20,000 people. The 2021 Census showed the areas population had grown from 900 to 2300 in five years.
Classes are expected to begin in 2028, a spokesman for the NSW Education Department said.
Testing and investigations began in May to inform the schools' designs, which remain in development.
Once planning approval is received and a contractor is onboard, construction work will begin.
"The project is currently in the planning and design stages. We will keep the community informed as the project progresses," the spokesman said.
In the 2024-2025 budget, the state announced plans to create 100 new co-located pre-schools across the state and set aside $630,000 to deliver a kindergarten to year 8 school in Huntlee.
Across the state, the government will invest $9 billion in school infrastructure over four years for new and upgraded schools.
New schools were promised by the Labor state government in 2023 after parents in the burgeoning suburban hub raised concerns that the estate lacked needed facilities.
"We were told Huntlee is this wonderful new town designed for 20,000 people, which is all well and good, but this town and its residents deserve education facilities," parent Lee-Anne Moore told the Cessnock Advertiser in 2023.
"Given Huntlee will be home to 20,000 people, a similar size to Singleton, we need these education facilities, first a high school and then a primary school, to be built, and built now."
The NSW Department of Planning was contacted for comment.
