A Coventry school has been given the green light to build temporary classrooms as it takes on extra children. Baginton Fields Special School agreed to take on additional pupils from September this year and told the council it needed new classrooms to accommodate them.

Their long-term plan is to construct a new school building. A design and access statement submitted as part of the application said the school buildings would be ‘redesigned and rebuilt’.

It adds: “The temporary units are required to allow this to be carried out with minimal disruption to the school, it is intended for the temporary units to be situated at the rear of the existing school on the current tarmac playground and aims to give vital temporary teaching space while the school buildings are being developed.”

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Coventry City Council has this week granted permission for the plans to go ahead. But it has put limits in place meaning that permission is only granted until the end of September 2026.

On or before this time, the temporary buildings must be removed from the site. Speaking when plans were first submitted, a city council spokesman said the new classrooms were needed for extra children the school is taking on.

The school's next phase of development is "at very early stages," they added. "Baginton Fields Special School have agreed to take additional pupils from September 2023 which has required new classrooms on site.

"The school and local authority are working together to review the accommodation requirements for the longer term, however the next phase of development on Baginton Fields school site is at very early stages and no further information is currently available."

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