Piers Meyler, LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTER
Published:
12:15 PM December 22, 2020
Essex County Council.
- Credit: ANDRA MACIUCA
A new reception class will be ready to open by September 2021 after Essex County Council gave the green light for the financing of a new through school in Dunmow.
But the class will be housed in temporary accommodation at the existing Helena Romanes secondary school for one year while a new “learning village” in Buttleys Lane is being built ahead of opening in September 2022.
The school, just off the A120, will eventually be capable of educating more than 2,000 children aged five to 18.
The secondary school and sixth form accommodation – to be built at the same time as the £10m ECC-funded primary school – are to be funded by the Saffron Academy Trust through sale of the existing school site for development of around 200 homes.