Green Hall Close, Application For Planning Permission

Prescribed alteration proposal - Relocation to a new site and permanent expansion of Rowan Tree Primary School

Notice is given in accordance with section 19(1) of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 and the statutory guidance for proposers and decision makers 'Making significant changes ('prescribed alterations') to maintained schools, January 2023', that Wigan Council intends to make prescribed alterations to Rowan Tree Primary School, Green Hall Close, Atherton, Manchester M46 9HP. It is proposed that Rowan Tree Primary School is permanently expanded so that it can admit 154 pupils with an age range of 4 to 11 years. The Department for Education has identified the school to be rebuilt as part of the School's Rebuilding Programme and the local authority will also use the opportunity to permanently expand the school. To accommodate the proposed expansion and to deal with the current condition issues with the school building, the school will need to be relocated onto a new school site which is the former site of Our Lady of the Rosary RC School, off Heath Lane, Leigh. The proposed relocation and expansion will take 2 years to complete.

This Notice is an extract from the complete proposal, which can be viewed at: www.wigan.gov.uk/consultations. Copies of the complete proposal can also be obtained from: Wigan Council, School Organisation Team, Town Hall, Library Street, Wigan, WN1 1YN, by email to consultation@wigan.gov.uk or by phone to 01942 489013.

Within 4 weeks of the date of these proposals, any person may support, object to or make comments on the proposal online at www.wigan.gov.uk/consultations or by sending their representations to Wigan Council, School Organisation Team, Town Hall, Library Street, Wigan, WN1 1YN or by email to consultation@wigan.gov.uk. The closing date for comments is 5pm 3rd October 2023.

Signed: Catherine Pealing, Assistant Director Education

Publication Date: 5th September 2023