Hull City Council has announced plans to develop another new primary school for the city on Kingswood Parks in Hull which will cater for 280 pupils and will have a 26 place nursery.

A consultation event is being held on Monday 19 October at Kingswood College of Arts. Local residents are being invited to give their views on what type of primary school they would like to see as part of new statutory regulations on opening a new school. This follows a decision record being signed by the Leader of Hull City Council, Councillor Minns, asking for the consultation to begin.

Cllr Minns said: "Hull City Council is committed to providing the best educational opportunities and raising education standards for all our children and young people. In helping to achieve this we feel it is important to provide parents with a good choice of schools within their local communities. The development on Kingswood Parks has seen many new houses being built in this area of the city and I am delighted that we are now in a position to start consultation on a new primary school."


Consultation documents explaining the process for opening a new school and the characteristics of different categories of schools will be distributed to local residents week beginning Monday 4 October.

The school will be developed alongside our exciting Building Schools for the Future (BSF) plans for Kingswood College of Arts which will have its own state-of-the-art new building opening in September 2012.

The cost of the school will be funded, in part, by Kingswood Parks Development Company (KPDC), following an agreement with the council, which states that the developer would provide a suitable school site and a contribution to the costs of the construction and fitting out of the primary school.

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