Residents have until the end of the month to comment on a planning application to transform Bitterne Park School and eventually increase capacity by 300 students to 1800.
• Impressions of new Bitterne Park School
As reported last October, the plan is to build a large part three, and part four-storey school building towards the bottom of the current playing fields, with students continuing their studies using existing facilities while building work is in progress. The school will then move to the new accommodation while the old buildings are demolished and the area turned into playing fields.
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The main school entrance will move to Dimond Road.
There has been a consultation a non-statutory and statutory consultation and the council's cabinet has authorised the increase in pupil numbers to 1800. Two meetings with local residents about the proposals have been held at the school, at which among other things traffic, parking, and the location of the buildings relative to houses have been the main concerns.
Our report on the last, which included presentations on the development and building process from school, construction company, funders and architects, is here [link corrected].
The planning application, where comments can be made online, is here.
Details of, and links to, consultations and council decisions updated
See visualisations of the new school in our subsequent article: Impressions of new Bitterne Park School