£1m expansion of Tameside primary school signed off by town hall
A £1m project to expand a Tameside primary school has been signed off by town hall chiefs.Cabinet members Councillors Oliver Ryan and Leanne Feeley have agreed to fund the building of a new extension at St John’s Church of England primary school in Dukinfield.The school has taken extra pupils since September 2014, which was due to an increase in the birth rate in the area coupled with ‘substantial’ new build housing within Dukinfield and surrounding areas.The admission number was formally increased from 30 to 45 in 2013, and a series of works took place over the following five years to create extra space for pupils.Plans to create a new two classroom extension have been in the pipeline since 2017, but had not begun so a temporary mobile