Three new classroom spaces are set to be created at an Airdrie primary school campus to accommodate increasing pupil rolls.
North Lanarkshire Council proposes to build an extension at All Saints Primary to provide two extra classrooms, while an internal courtyard space will be reconfigured at adjoining Rochsolloch to create a further room.
A planning application has now been submitted to the local authority and could be determined next month.
The new classrooms would increase Rochsolloch’s permanent capacity to 313 pupils from its current 255, while All Saints’ pupil roll capacity will increase by 66 places to a potential 305.
Rochsolloch’s new teaching space would be created by reconfiguring courtyard and staff resource areas opposite an existing main teaching area; while the All Saints extension would be at the south-east corner of the site, built opposite the schools’ games hall.
A council spokesperson said: “A planning application has been submitted for work at All Saints and Rochsolloch primaries to create additional teaching space; two classrooms at All Saints and one at Rochsolloch.
“General purpose rooms are currently being used for teaching so this work will create additional space for both schools.
“Subject to planning approval, work is expected to start on site in March with the new classrooms expected to be operational later this year.”
The joint schools campus, in Cairnhill, first opened its doors in March 2012 with 500 pupils moving in to the state-of-the-art new building.
Both schools were relocating from buildings which were more than a century old, with Rochsolloch previously having been based at Kippen Street and All Saints – known prior to the campus move as Alexandra Primary – having occupied a building at Broomknoll Street which was originally Alexander’s School and later housed Airdrie Academy.
The two Airdrie primaries were among 12 in Monklands and 33 across North Lanarkshire which were highlighted four years ago by the council as being “likely to experience capacity pressures over the coming years, and [which] may not be able to accommodate all placing requests”.
