Schools/colleges

TASIS school have applied for planning permission to use land between Ten Acre Lane and Village Road as a playing field.
The school have been using the land, with temporary permission, since 2001, and have now applied for permission to use the land permanently.

TASIS school is being accused of trying to take over Thorpe after it revealed multi-million pound expansion plans.

The American school in Coldharbour Lane is seeking planning permission to demolish 18 buildings and replace them with structures including a new two-storey upper school and a business office.

A Thorpe boarding school has revealed ambitious plans to increase pupil numbers and extend their buildings.

TASIS, the American School in Switzerland, in Thorpe, want to build a new two storey upper school and a single storey business office - an increase in floorspace of 840 square metres at the Coldharbour Lane campus. They plan to demolish 18 existing buildings on the campus to make room for the new facilites.

They also want to increase pupil numbers from 725 - 800, which they say will be day pupils from the area, rather than boarders.

The scheme will be voted on by councillors at the planning committee meeting of August 6, but officers have already recommended it be granted permission.