Edgar Wood Academy confirmed to open September 2021 at temporary Hopwood Hall site Date published: 17 May 2021
Marcin Kojder, Headteacher, Edgar Wood Academy and Richard Ronksley, CEO of Altus Education Partnership
Middleton’s new forthcoming high school, Edgar Wood Academy, will open to students in September 2021 at a temporary site at Hopwood Hall’s Middleton campus.
The planning permission for both the temporary site at Hopwood Hall, Middleton campus, and the permanent site have been approved and the contractors will shortly be breaking ground and starting work.
The funding agreement for Edgar Wood Academy has been signed by the Secretary of State for Education, marking significant progress in the pre-opening phase of the academy secondary school.
The site at Hopwood Hall College where the temporary school buildings will be situated
The Department of Education has lodged plans for a ‘stop-gap’ school at a Middleton college so pupils don’t have to wait for a new one to be built.
The application proposes temporary buildings on scrub land at Hopwood Hall College’s Middleton campus, on Rochdale Road.
It comes after planners granted outline permission for a new secondary school – dubbed the Edgar Wood Academy – at Bowlee.
But that won’t be ready to open its doors until September 2022 at the earliest – and a shortfall of 114 pupil places is already forecast for Middleton this year.
Plans for stop-gap school so pupils don t have to wait for new one to be built
Middleton s new Edgar Wood Academy won’t be ready to open its doors until September 2022 at the earliest
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A fully detailed application of a new secondary school in Middleton has now been submitted.
Planning officials have already given ‘outline’ permission for the new school – dubbed the Edgar Wood Academy – to be built on grazing land at Birch and Bowlee.
But while that approved the development ‘in principle’ – together with a new access road off Heywood Old Road – a fully detailed application has now been submitted by the Altus Education Partnership.
It sets out the appearance, layout and scale of the development, as well as including further information on parking and sports provision.
The proposals confirm the school will feature two main buildings: a three-storey teaching block and a separate two-storey sports hall connected by a covered walkway.
New images reveal how secondary school set to open in Middleton next year could look Outline planning permission for the 900-place secondary was granted in October.
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