Plans approved for new specialist school

by Lisa Reeves

Friday 11^th November 2022

Fri 11^th Nov 2022

Plans permission has been granted to change of use of a former community centre into a special school.

Cheshire East Council were granted permission to create a new educational facility at Dean Row Day Centre in July 2021, for pupils with special needs.

A scheme, submitted in June 2022, has now been approved for the remodelling and refurbishment of the existing building, including new and replacement windows, doors, cladding and roof coverings.

Additionally, a new extension to house an escape stair will be built along with new roof mounted plant and photovoltaic solar panels and associated fall protection guard rails.

Amendments will also be made to the existing car park, including access control barriers and gates, new fencing, new sprinkler tank and associated pump housing, new external storage shed.

The Council's scheme will create a satellite school to expand Springfield School in Crewe from 170 pupil places to 250 places (80 places in Wilmslow) from September 2022 for pupils aged 4-19 with a range of needs of including Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC), Severe Learning difficulties (SLD) and Profound Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD).

The plans for the Dean Row School can be viewed on the Cheshire East Council planning portal by searching for planning reference 22/2349M.

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Julie Green

Monday 14^th November 2022 at 4:18 pm

Wasn't this building the 1970s extension to Wilmslow Girls' Grammar, added when it changed to Dean Row High? If you look on the photo you can see the bricked up link corridor which linked the first floor to the science labs corridor in the old school. If the day centre is the school extension, in the late 70s downstairs was woodwork and metalwork (the girls never got chance to do those subjects), art and a few smaller classrooms I think. The Grammar school hall was roughly where the original Lidl store was. The new Lidl sits on the school playing field where we paddled up to our knees in mud playing hockey during the winter!