Academy to discover fate of ambitious new building plan

An academy in an ever-growing market town will discover next week if its plans for a new building can become a reality.Attleborough Academy has lodged an application to Breckland Council for a new two-storey teaching building to replace mobile classrooms on the site.It will be the school’s next step towards fulfilling a master plan for the site in years to come, which aims to establish – among other things – a new sixth form centre.On Monday, members of Breckland’s planning committee will choose whether to rubber-stamp the proposal, which will also provide the school with a ?new drama studio and space for its special educational needs ?team.It comes after the same planning committee agreed to give outline planning permission for a scheme that will close to double the town in size, with 4,000 homes proposed for the edge of the town.The academy’s scheme has been recommended by officers for approval, with the committee due to make the final decision on it.The plans would not see the academy increasing its pupil numbers, which most recently were at 764.