Backing for Telford super school
Multi-million pound plans to tear down the Lord Silkin School in Telford and replace it with a new "super school" are set to get the go-ahead next week.
Council bosses want to demolish the school in Stirchley and replace it with a new 1,152 place 'all through' school, including a 600-place secondary school, 420-space primary school, 32-place nursery and 100-place post-16 vocational training centre.
It will incorporate the current Lord Silkin secondary and Grange Park primary schools.
The former Stirchley Primary School, which is now used as a council training centre, and the empty Swan Centre would also be ripped down under the plans.
A planning application will be considered by Telford & Wrekin Council's plans board next Wednesday.
The school is part of the council's plan to rebuild or remodel the borough's schools using money from the Building Schools for the Future scheme.
A report to the board says a condition survey at Lord Silkin showed that six classrooms were below the recommended standards.
Science, technology, music and drama teaching rooms are too small to meet national curriculum needs and changing rooms and toilets also need refurbishment.
It also said there was a lack of storage and play areas had to be shared with the primary school.
There were also health and safety issues over students having to share their main entrance with the public using the library
The report says: "This large scale regeneration of Stirchley local centre through new educational facilities will have an intrinsic and wide-reaching community benefit."
The existing buildings would continue to be used until the new school was completed. In total, the new integrated school will employ about 150 teachers and support staff.
