Former Tulketh High site A new Preston secondary school is set to be built in the same place a previous one operated until it was shut down more than 15 yea
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Meanwhile, the cabinet is also poised to give the go-ahead to a long-planned new primary school on the former Whittingham Hospital site. Its initial capacity of 210 pupils, when it opens in September 2026, could later be expanded to 420. “The whole area is going to suffer. People who have moved in to North West Preston are not getting the school they were promised, while the residents near where Tulketh High used to be are now going to get masses of traffic and parking issues around a site that was never supposed to be a school again.
A report to be presented to a meeting of the cabinet next Thursday also refers to consideration of “overall cost to the authority” being taken into account. The county council carried out a public consultation early last year into the option of building a new school on the old Tulketh High, which was known as Tulketh Community Sports College by the time of its closure 16 years ago.
A separate consultation would have to be carried out in relation to the planning application that would have to be submitted before any building work could begin.It is almost four years since land was set aside for a new primary school as part of a 200-dwelling housing development approved on land north of Tabley Lane.
The document acknowledges that pupil numbers are rising in the Preston Rural school planning area as a result of housing growth and the popularity of existing schools, which are combining to generate “a proportionate increase” in the number of parental preferences for admissions to schools in that location.
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