Stockport to get new £17m special school after 'much-needed' plans signed off
manchestereveningnews.co.ukStockport is to get a new £17m special school after 'much-needed' plans were signed off by town hall bosses. Named Pear Tree Academy, the secondary school will provide places for up to 133 pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), including children who have autism.
Based at the old Orrishmere Primary School site, in Cheadle Hulme, the scheme took a big step forward when members of Cheadle area committee unanimously backed the plans last Monday, describing them as ‘life changing’.
And it was given the full go-ahead by the council’s planning committee when it met Stockport town hall just three days later.
Coun Roy Driver told the meeting he ‘welcomed the scheme’. “It’s obviously fulfilling a significant need providing SEND education.," he said. READ MORE:Historic railway building and eight-storey roundhouse could create ‘landmark’ Stockport apartments Plans for Pear Tree Academy came about after the council successfully bid for government cash to create a new SEND secondary school.
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