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The new school buildings in Wavertree<\/p>\nA series of temporary buildings have been put up for at least four years for work to startThe new school buildings in Wavertree<\/p>\n
Education officials have moved to quash fears over the impact of temporary buildings put up to welcome hundreds of students at Liverpool\u2019s newest school.<\/a> Earlier this year, King\u2019s Leadership Academy Wavertree<\/a> confirmed it would finally welcome an initial cohort of Year 7 students from September after being beset by delays.<\/p>\n In a bid to meet the demand for school places across the city, it had been proposed that Kings Leadership open its fifth site in 2024. With planning permission only being granted for the change of use from office buildings earlier this year, the opening date was pushed back until this autumn.<\/p>\n Liverpool Council<\/a>\u2019s planning committee has rubber-stamped the opening of a series of temporary buildings to house around 200 pupils at the site on Wavertree Technology Park. It is thought the school will eventually provide 1,050 places for students aged 11 to 16 when work is completed.<\/p>\n Richard Holliday, an agent on behalf of the Department for Education, said the project was borne out of a critical and urgent need for school places in the city and a temporary solution was \u201cessential\u201d to meet local demand. Confusion reigned over whether the date could be met amid a wait for Department for Education (DfE) officials to agree a funding settlement for the new school.<\/p>\n An initial tranche of 210 pupils started their next phase of education at the start of the new school year on September 4. It was revealed in March how new plans were submitted to Liverpool Council for temporary buildings to be set up on the site of the former Sony offices on Rathbone Way to get learners on site in time for the start of term.<\/p>\n Mr Holliday said the site was selected after a \u201ccomprehensive\u201d search with the new school aimed at alleviating the need for places. The modular setup is a \u201cpractical and efficient\u201d solution in the short term and can be removed with \u201cminimal disruption\u201d when no longer needed, the agent said.<\/p>\n Full planning permission was granted for the two-storey modular school building and associated works for a temporary period of four years. It comprises two linked structures consisting of a single-storey main hall\/dining room and a two-storey teaching block.<\/p>\n Mr Holliday said the four-year period was agreed to allow time for the design and development of the new permanent school building. He said a \u201cphased approach\u201d would be adopted to move children from the temporary site to their new surroundings.<\/p>\n Cllr Mary Rasmussen expressed her concerns, however. She said: \u201cI genuinely cannot welcome this school enough; we need more good places.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re at full capacity in four years. Are we looking at the same site to build the school and what problems would that cause? I\u2019d imaging huge and I hope everyone can overcome those.<\/p>\n \u201cI worry about the use of modular units. It\u2019s brilliant when they\u2019re used for a short space of time.<\/p>\n \u201cI do have concerns over the overlap of the new build and the modular units building up to accommodate the children.\u201d The former PlayStation building earmarked for the school could subsequently be demolished to make way for the new facility, having been deemed unviable for educational purposes.<\/p>\n It is projected that the new school building will open in 2028. King\u2019s Wavertree is the fifth secondary school in the Great Schools Trust.<\/p>\n The Trust has two secondary schools in Merseyside, King\u2019s Liverpool in Dingle and King\u2019s Hawthornes in Bootle,<\/a> alongside two primary schools, including King\u2019s Northway in Wavertree and King\u2019s Lander in Litherland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A series of temporary buildings have been put up for at least four years for work to startThe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,14487,16,15,18682],"class_list":{"0":"post-519171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-liverpool-council","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-wavertree"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115416902617760717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}