PLANS for a £2.5m improvement programme at a west Oxfordshire secondary school have been unveiled.
The project at Burford School and Community College, in Cheltenham Road, includes a new building, above, which would be heated using recycled cooking oil.
Among the new facilities at the school, which has 1,300 pupils, would be eight classrooms and a drama studio, taking the place of 10 temporary classrooms and redundant farm buildings. Extra tennis courts are also included.
The proposals are being recommended for approval and Michael Waine, Oxfordshire County Council’s cabinet member for schools improvement, will consider the scheme at a meeting on Wednesday.
A planning application has been submitted to West Oxfordshire District Council.
The new classrooms will be next to buildings put up in 2005 and 2007.
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