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BBC News
22-05-2025
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Nottingham school expansion plan given green light
A school in Nottingham has been given approval for a multi-million pound expansion to address a shortage of classroom places.A three-court sports hall and 12 extra classrooms will be built at Bluecoat Wollaton Academy, allowing the school to grow by 300 pupils, to 1, expansion, approved unanimously by Nottingham City Council planners at a meeting on Wednesday, will increase full-time staff from 87 to 90, and part-time staff by seven, to 34, the Local Democracy Reporting Service school has been "significantly oversubscribed", the planning committee was told, and is using temporary classrooms to meet demand. Planners were told that while demand for school places has risen across the city, the council has "no power" to compel academies to expand, leaving Bluecoat Wollaton Academy as its "only viable option".Concerns were raised over traffic and parking in consultations held last year with parents, carers and people living representations from neighbouring properties also raised similar concerns, including access along the narrow Sutton Passeys, which can become "chaos" at pick-up and drop-off said they would ask colleagues to increase traffic enforcement patrols.
BBC News
12-05-2025
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Peterborough City Council plans to expand schools to meet demand
Four schools in a city are set to expand to meet rising demand from local families for pupil City Council has agreed to fund the works, with some construction already under four schools are: Stanground Academy, Marshfields School and NeneGate School in the city, and the Duke of Bedford Primary School in Cole, the council's cabinet member for children's services, said the authority based its decision to extend the schools on "current and forecast pupil demand in these areas". 'Work and investment' She said: "The council has a statutory duty to provide a school place for every child living in its area of responsibility who is of school age and whose parents want their child educated in the state sector."We want every Peterborough child to attend a school within the city and these projects demonstrate the hard work and investment the council are making in achieving this aim."Peterborough is one of the fastest-growing cities in the population was 215,700 according to the last census in 2021, a 17.5% increase from 2011 compared with 6.6% for council also said the number of children with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) was continuing to rise, particularly for children with severe learning difficulties and mental health needs. NeneGate School, a specialist school for pupils aged eight to 16, is expected to have a new teaching block with five classrooms by September approved by planners, this will accommodate an extra 40 pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs at the school, phased over two School in Dogsthorpe, which specialises in pupils who have learning difficulties and additional needs, will get two additional classrooms to create 16 places for primary-aged children with severe learning works are expected to start in July and be ready to use from are already under way at Stanground Academy, a secondary school and sixth form, to get additional dining room space that should be finished by Duke of Bedford Primary School in Thorney will have two mobile classroom units with toilets, which will increase its capacity by 15 pupils for each school year, which should be completed by of this project is being funded using contributions from Allison Homes, which has a housing development in the BBC asked the council how much funding it would provide for the expansion, and how much pupil demand was expected to increase by. Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
