Bridgend County Borough Council has agreed to fund highway improvements linked to the building of an additional teaching block at Bryntirion Comprehensive School.

Bryntirion Comprehensive School has capital funding earmarked for a new four-classroom teaching block. The additional space is to accommodate the rising number of pupils coming from housing developments in the school’s catchment area, with developers significantly contributing to the cost of the construction of the new classrooms.

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Part of the planning conditions for the school’s expansion is adjustments to the active travel or highway arrangements surrounding the school.

The Council has agreed to facilitate the funding of these amendments by creating a separate scheme within the capital programme for the improvements. This will be covered by transferring £140k from a number of school modernisation schemes within the capital programme.

The improvements will include a series of dropped kerbs, new footway and kerbing, tactile paving, as well as fingerpost signage.