PLANS to redevelop a south Liverpool school to house an Academy were approved by councillors despite fears over disabled facilities.
The site of St Benedict’s College and Dutch Farm, in Garston, will be used for the £21m South Liverpool Enterprise Academy.
It will be attended by pupils from St Benedict’s and New Heyes school.
The head of the council’s disability access forum, Cllr Richard McLinden, said he was outraged there was no evacuation lift suitable for getting disabled students, staff and visitors out of the four-storey building in the event of a fire.
Planning officers then revealed a lift was built in.
But Cllr McLinden said: “The fact it was omitted despite £21m being spent shows it is more concerned with aesthetics than the lives of disabled people.”
