Plans to demolish and rebuild secondary and primary school given go-ahead

A primary and secondary school will be demolished and rebuilt, a planning committee agreed last night.George Mitchell secondary and primary schools, in Leyton, are named as part of the priority school building programme and work will be funded by the Education Funding Agency.Planning permission to demolish and rebuild the two sites was agreed last night on February 2 by the planning committee at Waltham Forest town hall in Walthamstow.The primary school, in Burchell Road, was built in the 1960s and will be replaced by a two storey building with facilities including classrooms, main hall, nursery play area, library, staff room and kitchen.The secondary school, in Farmer Road, is an old Victorian building and will be demolished to make way for a three to four storey red brick building with facilities such as a sports hall, classrooms, science laboratory and offices.The facade will not be retained due to impracticalities.