Stockport gets ball rolling on town centre school
An integral part of the council’s resi-led regeneration agenda, the through school could accommodate around 1,500 primary and secondary pupils on an as yet unnamed town centre site.
Consultants have been put on alert as Stockport Council looks to appoint a design team to draw up a plan for the school.
The project would sit within the Stockport Mayoral Development Corporation’s recently extended masterplan for the town centre, which also features plans for 8,000 homes – 4,000 in the west and 4,000 in the east.
The school site, the location of which the council is keeping confidential for now, is located close to local transport nodes, including the bus interchange, according to tender documents.
The delivery of a school ties in with Stockport’s ambition for all children in Stockport to “grow up healthy, happy with confidence, ambition and surrounded by love, care and kindness” and is viewed as an important piece of infrastructure to support the town’s growing population, the documents state.
Last month, Place North West revealed the council and the MDC were also on the hunt for a consultancy team to develop a delivery strategy for the first chunk of the masterplan – 22 acres off Newbridge Lane.
