Images have been unveiled of a new £20 million high school to be built in Liverpool.

St Julie's Catholic High School will benefit around 1,000 young people and their families in Woolton.

The three and four storey buildings are being designed in line with the Woolton Village Conservation Area, and will be further away from the Grade 1 listed Woolton Hall than the existing school.

The complex will also include multi use games area and sports hall which will be available for use by the local community, and will give the school more outside play space than it currently has.

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Councillor Jane Corbett, Cabinet member for children’s services, said: "This scheme will deliver a fantastic new school for the area, benefiting hundreds of families who live in and around Woolton, as well as the wider community.

"It is absolutely vital that the area gets a new school and we have been able to come up with a plan which delivers a new school largely on the existing site.

"There is also an exciting opportunity here to develop a new piece of public space which can be used by the whole community, and deliver an increase in the amount of land available for use by local people."

A complete rebuild on the existing footprint of the St Julie's site is not feasible due to tight site constraints, and a comprehensive survey of the local area has shown there are no other suitable sites nearby which would deliver a large enough building, or with safe access for pupils and staff.

The planning application is expected to be considered in April 2015 and if approved the school is expected to be completed in autumn 2016.

(CD/IT)