Plans to build 135 new council homes on the site of the former Skerton High School in Lancaster have been approved.
Lancaster City Council's Planning Regulatory Committee gave the thumbs up to planning permission for the new scheme at a meeting on Monday, subject to conditions.
The plans are part of the council's regeneration aims for the Mainway estate in Skerton.
The council gave permission for the school to be demolished in December 2023.
Skerton High closed in 2014 after being deemed surplus to requirements by Lancashire County Council due to dwindling pupil numbers.
The city council bought the building in 2023.
Here's how the new scheme might look.
The new development will include two sets of new apartments, with a central square where residents can meet and socialise, a lawn with cafe style seating around the edge, and an additional community area on the ground floor of one of the apartment buildings.
There will also be three terraces of two, three, and four bedroom houses, children’s play facilities and two new football pitches, complete with changing facilities for players and officials.
The two rows of cherry trees that line the entrance way alongside the playing fields at the front of the site will be retained.
There will also be on-site parking.
The new homes will be affordable social rented accommodation, owned by Lancaster City Council, and with the council as landlord.
Other buildings on Mainway will be included in the rest of the project to revamp the entire estate.
The council has said some of these would be council owned, while others may be for private rent, shared ownership, or owned and managed by another housing provider.
The first school building was built and opened on the site in 1891.
The site expanded over the decades with the latest school building (now demolished) constructed in 1932-34.
The school expanded in the late 1930s, then again after the end of the war in the 1950s, followed by refurbishment and extensions in the late 20th century.
By the 1990s the site was renamed Skerton Community High School.
The school closed on August 31 2014.
A small part of the site has remained in education use by Chadwick PRU High School with the remainder of the school building and playing fields disused and vacant for just under 10 years.
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