Leicester: New secondary school to be built on former allotment site

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Leicester: New secondary school to be built on former allotment site
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Plans for a new secondary school, which will accommodate 1,200 pupils, are approved by councillors.

The new secondary school, which will accommodate 1,200 pupils, will be built in Garland Crescent next to Stokeswood ParkPlans to build a new city secondary school on a former allotment site have been approved by councillors.

People would also be able to access the school, which will have a 115-space car park and space for 253 bikes, from Forest Way, through Stokeswood Park, theThe city council has warned a school of this size "has substantial potential to cause widespread disruption on several sections of road". It was also once used as a claypit and later filled in with waste materials, resulting in contamination issues - which would take "significant and costly mediation work" for it to be turned into a public space.The city council said the green space was now "unused land", which was not open to the public and had not been so for a "considerable period of time".

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