Aug 19, 2023, Lancashire Telegraph: New classrooms at Blackburn special school approved https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/23732699.new-classrooms-blackburn-special-school-approved/
The installation of a temporary classroom block for three years at a borough's largest special school has been granted planning permission by councillors.
The move as part of a strategy to increase provision for pupils with additional needs.
The building at Newfield School in Old Bank Lane, Blackburn, will be a stopgap while two new permanent extensions to the school are constructed.
The new temporary block would be near the existing classrooms Both moves are part of a wider strategy to prevent children being sent out of Blackburn with Darwen borough for their education….
Adding temporary classroom will meet a short-term need whilst Blackburn with Darwen Council focuses on the permanent enlargement of the existing school buildings, which is expected to commence in early 2024.
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