£5m school plan to be discussed

Russell Steele • Published 31 Aug 2010 14:00

A £5 MILLION upgrade for a Greenock primary school looks set to be given the green light tomorrow.

Councillors will be asked to approve the major scheme, which will see Overton Primary given an ambitious makeover ahead of its merger next year with Highlanders’ Academy.

The school, situated in Peat Road, is to be extended to accommodate the extra influx of pupils and is scheduled to reopen in October 2011.

The refurbished facility will also become the new home for Inverclyde’s Gaelic primary pupils, who are currently based at Highlanders’, while the Dempster Street school’s pre-fives unit will move in too.

Overton schoolchildren are currently being educated at the former King’s Glen building, in the east end of Greenock.

The major development is the final stage in the primary school rationalisation plan, which Inverclyde Council started six years ago.

The extension itself is set to cover an area of more than 800 square metres and will be single-storey.

It will incorporate seven new classrooms, including a dedicated music room.

Plans show the existing school building will be altered to provide a corridor linking it to the extension.

And the main building, as it stands, is to be re-roofed, with new rooflights and aluminium frame double-glazed windows also to be introduced.

Environmental improvements within the grounds will include resurfacing to create new car parking.

Planning officials have recommended the major proposals should be rubber-stamped.

Members of Inverclyde’s planning board will now discuss the application when they meet tomorrow afternoon.

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