Former art gallery to be temporary school (From This is Hampshire)

Former art gallery to be temporary school

5:30am Thursday 14th May 2009

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A DILAPIDATED former art gallery is going to be transformed into a makeshift school.

The Beatrice Royal Art Gallery will be a temporary school for 70 pupils and seven staff from Allbrook Scool after Eastleigh Borough Council’s local area committee approved the plan.

With 79 pupils, the privately-run secondary school has outgrown its current site on Pitmore Road and wants to introduce a new primary school.

It would be run by the community of Plymouth Brethren through the Allbrook Education Trust.

The art gallery site in Nightingale Avenue, Eastleigh, could be used for up to five years as the private school looks for a new home big enough for the two buildings.

The committee did, however, put restrictions on what kind of fence could be put around the school.

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