BECKENHAM: Langley Park School for Boys submits £38m revamp plans (From News Shopper)

BECKENHAM: Langley Park School for Boys submits £38m revamp plans

10:06am Tuesday 1st September 2009 in Education News By Vicki Foster

FRESH plans for a controversial £38m school have been submitted.

Langley Park School for Boys, in Hawksbrook Lane, Beckenham, has sent the plans to Bromley Council as part of the Government’s Building Schools for the Future programme.

Last summer the school and Langley Park School for Girls became locked in a dispute over a large-scale development at the boys’ school.

The conflict began when Bromley Council gave the green light to a planning application which would have seen the majority of the buildings at the boys’ school bulldozed and replaced with state-of-the-art classrooms, a concert hall and sports pitches.

The girls’ school took the case to the Court of Appeal where on July 31 judges agreed the council was wrong to grant the application.

Latest plans include an access way to provide staff and pupils safe access to the girls’ school from St Dunstan’s Lane.

A decision by the council is expected in October and completion of the buildings is scheduled for 2012.