School resubmits temporary classroom plan

Ash Green Primary Academy is seeking permission for temporary classrooms to enable repairs to its main building

A primary school in Stoke-on-Trent has applied for a second time to build temporary double-decker classrooms on its playground.

Ash Green Primary Academy in Trentham wants the two blocks, containing eight classrooms, so it can carry out "significant structural repairs" to the first floor of its main building.

The first application, earlier this year, was turned down because the school failed to supply a sufficient flood risk assessment.

The school is seeking permission to site the blocks there for 12 months.

Architects Wood Goldstraw and Yorath, acting on behalf of the school, had previously contended a full flood risk assessment was not needed.

However, Stoke-on-Trent City Council planners said when refusing the application in March the lack of it meant the application was not of a "sufficient standard".

A 35-page flood risk assessment has now been submitted and includes details of how the "high risk" of surface water flooding would be mitigated by raised floor levels.

It adds the land has a 1% chance of flooding from rivers and concludes no additional flood protection measures would be required.

The work would add an additional 708 sq-m of classroom floor space, according to application documents.

A date to determine the plan has not yet been set.