OUTLINE planning permission was yesterday also granted for an £18m development at De La Salle School, in Croxteth, which will be re-named and re-developed on its existing site and become a boys’ academy.
Planners also backed a scheme to move Walton’s Archbishop Beck to a new £26m school on land occupied by a council depot in Aintree’s Long Lane.
The move, backed by the school, is intended to solve traffic problems around the school and offer more indoor and outdoor facilities to help its sports specialism. Notre Dame Catholic College, in Everton, will be redeveloped on its existing site, letting it expand and incorporate some of Hope Valley primary school’s building.
The green light for the plans means Liverpool council can now submit a detailed business case to the government on how it will rebuild or refurbish all the city’s secondary schools by 2017 under the Building Schools For the Future Scheme.
The Government-funded project aims to ensure all schools are fit for the 21st century.
