St George’s School is going to be completely rebuilt. This is part of the Government’s “Building Schools for the Future” programme. Southampton is in the latest “wave” of Local Authorities to be included in this £2.5 to £3 billion a year programme to rebuild or remodel almost every state secondary school in England. St George’s is one of the two sample schools in the City that will be built first. A major headache must be how to build a new school, whilst the old one remains open.
The new building will not intrude into the playing fields or the woodland on the east side, which is subject to a tree preservation order. During the building, a temporary access route for contractors’ vehicles will be created from Stoneham Lane across the field and around the north end of the woodland.
You may be wondering what will happen to these plans when the next government starts the cuts in earnest.