Plans to rebuild Holly Lodge Girls' College will be considered by planners in Liverpool later this month, according to the Liverpool Express.

It is part of the Mayor's Investment Plan for Schools, devised as a rescue package following the scrapping of Wave Six of Liverpool’s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project.

The funding – a combination of city council and Government money – was negotiated as part of Liverpool’s City Deal, and will see at least 12 schools receive investment.

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The £7 million scheme will see a new main teaching block with comprising new humanities classrooms, new arts, music and drama spaces including a new main activity hall, and a new 6th Form with a central atrium and café area.

The aim is to significantly reduce the number of school buildings, some of which are over 100 years old and unsuited to delivering a modern curriculum.

It also includes a small extension to the existing sports hall with new administrative offices and a new look reception.

There will also be a new half-sized floodlit artificial grass pitch which will be made available to the local community.

The new building is arranged in proximity to the five buildings which are being retained, which will greatly reduce lost teaching time as a result of pupils having to walk long distances between lessons.

The scheme will include a new pond and landscaped gardens.

(CD/MH)