Feb 10, 2024, Chronicle Live: New special educational needs unit set to be created at Sunderland primary school
Hudson Road Primary School in the Hendon ward will benefit from the new special educational needs (SEN) resource unit
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A primary school in Sunderland is set to get a new special educational needs (SEN) unit, thanks to a decision by city councillors. The plans for Hudson Road Primary School in the Hendon ward were approved at a meeting of Sunderland City Council's Planning and Highways Committee this week.
The application from Together for Children relates to a nursery building within the school's grounds, which has been empty since nursery provision moved to the main school building.
Last year, plans were submitted to knock down the previous 'covered external play area' and to refurbish and extend the former standalone nursery building to create a new SEN resource unit. . . .
Council planning officers, in a report prepared ahead of the decision-making meeting, recommended the SEN resource unit plan for approval.
The new building for Hudson Road Primary School will provide extra space for wider education facilities that the school currently lacks. The refurbishment works will also allow for an additional 16 pupils and four staff members.
The plans received unanimous support at Monday's Planning and Highways Committee meeting, with many councillors praising the scheme. Councillor Iain Scott said: "We really do have a need for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) provision in Sunderland, quite prevalently amongst key stage one.
"Again, this is a generation with Covid where they missed some of their introduction to schooling and we've seen, not just across the city but across the entirety of the country, an increase in SEND need.
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