Plans for new Cleethorpes school on Matthew Humberstone site unveiled
PLANS for a new school for Cleethorpes have been unveiled.
Featuring an open air assembly area and a science garden, the Joint Church School, in Clee Road, will incorporate Matthew Humberstone Lower School and St Mary's Catholic School, catering for 750 pupils and employing about 150 staff.
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Designs for the new school.
Tomorrow, council planners will hear about the design.
As reported, it is one of the first new schools to be built as part of the £120-million Building Schools for the Future programme in North East Lincolnshire.
The new school will measure about 7,000 square metres and incorporate only some of the present school building, including the single-storey buildings dating back to 1881 and Headmaster's House.
Most of the new building will be two storeys high, and also includes a new sports hall.
A coach and bus drop-off point to the south of the site, accessed from Davenport Drive, will be built next to the playing fields.
A decision has yet to be made on whether to demolish the existing swimming pool, but the building will be kept open out of school hours for public use.
And renewable energy – including solar panels, biomass boilers and ground source heat pumps – will be used to power the school.
The application from North East Lincolnshire Council to its own Planning Committee is an outline application and more details will be added later.
Councillors meeting tomorrow from 9.30am at Grimsby Town Hall have been recommended to approve the plan.
If given the go-ahead, work is expected to begin later this year.
The planning report reads: "The redevelopment of the site offers a real opportunity to improve its educational and community facilities to the overall benefit of the community."
To make way for the change, Matthew Humberstone pupils transferred to the upper school site on Chatsworth Drive in September.
The 365 pupils of St Mary's are continuing studies at their school in Wootton Road, Grimsby, and will transfer when the new building is complete.
No job losses are expected due to the merger, and no announcement has been made about the future of the St Mary's building.
2 Comments
by Jimbo, Grimsby
Tuesday, January 27 2009, 10:49AM
“It will be a marvellous building, no doubt. But will biomas boilers and all the rest of the goodies actually improve the education that goes on inside the school? The building is being erected on tick as well. The bill for it will have to be paid as adults by those children who use the school.
Still, if it's bright and shiny and new it must be good.”
by Jb, At Home
Tuesday, January 27 2009, 9:53AM
“What about Lindsey Lower which has been derelict for a lot longer than Matthew Humberstone, or is that just waiting to go up in flames like Birds Eye.
Its a complete eyesore, the council or whoever dont even maintain the grass and hedging anymore and makes the area look more of a mess than it already is ,GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER NELC,/EDUCATION AUTHORITY and lts see some action for once !!”