A CENTURY-old primary school at Warrington is to be extended to accommodate an extra 120 pupils.
Planning chiefs have approved plans for a two-storey extension at Oakwood Avenue Primary School.
The development will follow on from a recently completed extension to the school’s infants’ department and will allow an increase in pupil numbers to move through the school years to the junior department.
It will allow the overall number of pupils to increase from 510 to 630.
Members of the borough council’s planning committee were told the junior school block, a red-brick building of two and three storeys, was a locally listed building and a good example, typical of its age and function.
One objection was received from a resident of Pinewood Avenue who was concerned about the impact of bats seen in the school grounds, the loss of trees, noise and parking problems.
But planning officers recommend the scheme be approved and said it would not have any impact on the residential amenity of nearby houses, nor on the bats.
School to get room for120 more pupils
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