Plans to enable primary school to be ‘ more visible and easier to find’

NEW PLANS to help “draw gentle attention” to a Bradford primary school have been submitted to Bradford Council.

Feversham Primary Academy is currently a drab looking building that visitors could easily drive past without noticing.

But a planning application recently submitted to Bradford Council says that would be changed.

The scheme is for alterations to school building to re- position its main entrance, extend and alter an outbuilding, adding multi- coloured canopies and roofing, and the creation of a covered link, joining the outbuilding to the main school building.

The school is on Harewood Street, a short distance from Leeds Road, but the planning application says the school is not very visible, and can be difficult to find.

The school was taken over by the Academies Enterprise Trust in 2012, becoming a primary academy. Ithas489pupilsandemploys 24 teaching staff, 22 teaching assistants and nine other non teaching staff.

The school’s existing reception area, administration office and staff room will be re- located into the refurbished outbuilding. The school car park will remain as it is. The application says the changes will not impact local traffic.

The application, submitted by the Academies Enterprise Trust, says:“The proposed design will create an environment which is highly participative and aspirational for pupils, teachers, parents and visitors with the use of a new parent room, community room with outdoor space and new visitors entrance with a double height vaulted ceiling with rooflight.”

A decision is expected to be made in October.