High school expansion plan submitted to ease demand for student places in Salford

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A high school in Salford built in 2015 is already looking at expansion plans to meet student place demands. All Hallows R.C High School has submitted a planning application to Salford City Council for a larger playground, phase one of the expansion plan.

This decision was made as the facilities do not meet the requirements for the current number of students at the school. The Eccles Old Road site agreed to take in an extra 25 Year 7 students per year back in March.

The fenced off grassed area bounded by the existing playground, the car park and the playing fields to the north of the school building will be replaced with a new tarmac surfacing. Read more: Derelict site set to become Wigan borough's seventh Lidl An area to the northeast of the existing playground has also been deemed suitable to create additional playground space.

This area sits at the bottom of the grassed bank between the playground and the all-weather pitch - an underused area of the specialist school of business, enterprise and sports. “The proposed playground works detailed in this application are the first stage of the proposed expansion of the school to accommodate additional child places,” a design and access statement said. “The existing area of hard standing used as a play area struggles to meet the requirements of the school with current pupil numbers.” Salford City Council decided that in order to achieve this and to allow the increased cohort of pupils move through the school, there will be a need to carry out internal alterations to support general teaching and specialist teaching areas.