Investment plan includes new state of the art school for Omega

WARRINGTON Borough Council has announced further details of its major investment programme to expand primary schools in West Warrington – including a new state of the art Primary School on Omega South.
The new school will replace the existing primary school on Barrowhall Lane, Great Sankey.
The aim of the programme is ultimately to increase the number of available school places within the area and is a proactive approach to ensure that there are sufficient school places to meet demand, which also takes account of the location and quality of existing school buildings, and allows for replacement when this is considered the best option.
The latest phase of this approach is the creation of a completely new, state of the art school building on the Omega South site, which will replace the current primary school buildings on Barrow Hall Lane.
The planning application for this development has been submitted, and subject to consultation and approval, construction on the new Barrow Hall Primary School will commence in the Summer with a planned completion in time for the start of the new school year commencing in September 2016.
The relocated school will remain as Barrow Hall Primary School, thus retaining all key elements of the existing successful school including: name; ethos, staff; logo and uniform.
Earlier phases of the programme are also running according to plan and include expansion through significant investment at St Phillip’s (Westbrook) CE Primary and Chapelford Village Primary.
In total 75 additional school places per year are being created in this phase which comprises an additional 15 places at Barrow Hall, 30 at St Phillip’s and 30 at Chapelford. A further phase may be implemented if demand continues to rise which could potentially include expanding another two schools in the area.
By vacating the Barrow Hall Lane site traffic issues in the immediate area are also expected to be improved and safe routes to access the new school site are included in the council’s plans. Traffic will also be further eased once the Junction 8 improvement works are completed and when Skyline Drive is fully open which will connect Junction 8 of the M22 with Omega Boulevard by the Royal Mail depot.