Ambitious plans to develop a new Welsh-medium primary school in Newport are set to get the final approval next week.
Newport council’s cabinet member for education and skills, Cllr Gail Giles, will make the final decision on the project next Friday (June 19).
If approved, Pillgwenlly Primary School will be relocated to a site on the former Whiteheads steelworks site, off Mendaligief Road in Pill.
The new Welsh-medium primary school will open as a ‘seedling’ school in the infants’ building at Caerleon Lodge Hill in 2021, before moving permanently to the current Pillgwenlly Primary School site in September 2023.
Originally the new Welsh-medium primary school was set to move permanently into the Pill primary school site in 2022, but uncertainty over land transfer led to a one-year delay.
Earlier this year, the plans were subject to a consultation and no objections were received.
The new primary school will increase availability of Welsh-medium primary school places by 50 per cent across Newport. It will deliver 430 additional pupil places.
The Welsh Government is providing £5.8 million to the project via the Welsh Medium Capital Grant.
This funding will be used to make improvements to the seedling facility and to the existing Pill primary school buildings.
The new school build on the Whiteheads development site is part of the council’s 21 century schools programme and is joint funded by Newport City Council and the Welsh Government.
