1 week Ago
The cottage at Hitchin Girls' School has been vacant for more than a year, with the Highbury Road secondary school keen to provide an "essential" for SEND pupils. "The school wish to provide dedicated and enhanced facilities for their Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) department, a planning statement reads. "At present these are disparate and are timetabled to suit use of otherwise heavily used spaces around the school.
"There is limited scope for alternative locations for SEND within the undersized school grounds and the original tightly configured site. "An existing caretaker’s cottage, owned by the school, is located on the boundary immediately adjacent the main school entrance gates. "The cottage was originally intended to house site staff but it has not been used for over a year now and is no longer required for this purpose.
"The nature of the school’s SEND requirements will work well in a dedicated building with smaller, more intimate teaching spaces. The re-provision of this building creates a logical and economical solution in creating a focussed area for the SEND department." North Herts Council has given conditional permission for the development to go ahead, providing work begins within the next three years.
To view the plans, visit www.north-herts.gov.
uk/view-or-comment-planning-application, and search 25/00301/FP..
