Rotten Walsall classroom to be replaced
A rotting mobile classroom will be replaced after planners approved a proposal for a new rooms at a Walsall school.
Pool Hayes Primary School, in Bridgnorth Grove, Willenhall, said their ageing classroom building currently on site posed a safety hazard due to its leaky roof and rotting floors.
The worrying issue left the school without vital classroom space and so applied for a new building to provide the necessary facilities for lessons.
And Walsall Council’s planners approved the plan which will see a new mobile building featuring a classroom, toilets, a lobby and storeroom sited next to the playground.
The existing building will be demolished.
In the application, agents Portakabin said: “Pool Hayes Primary School currently has an aged single classroom modular building located on their site in Willenhall.
“The building is in a dilapidated condition with rotting floors and leaking roof and is therefore no longer fit for purpose and poses a safety risk.
“This has left the school without a full classroom space and as a result the school have an urgent requirement to provide that space again ensuring normal lesson planning.
“The school requires class sizes and children’s learning practices to be restored to a normal level of operation and occupation.
“The council have chosen Portakabin to provide a new single modular classroom located on site in close proximity to the existing dilapidated unit, and as part of the scope of work also to demolish and remove the said dilapidated unit.
“The new accommodation will comprise of one 60msq classroom, entered from an entrance lobby with two separate toilets and store room.
“The building is located adjacent to an existing playground and is accessed via a ramped foot-way."
