Avon Valley College plans approved

Plans to extend a school to accommodate Army families moving from Germany have been accepted by Wiltshire Council.Avon Valley College, in Durrington, has been granted planning permission to extend the current school site to increase the school’s capacity 200 places, to 1,250 pupils.As part of the plans, 23 new classrooms and extra outdoors space will be built to accommodate children of families coming to the Salisbury Plain as part of the Army Basing Programme.The project will run in two phases, the first of which will include building seven general classrooms, two specifically for information and communications technology (ICT), a suite of art classrooms, another suite of music and drama rooms, staff rooms and toilets.