What this Adelaide school’s $25m expansion means to its local neighbourhood, students
AN eastern suburbs school has been given the go-ahead to start a planned $25m upgrade of its facilities — it’ll involve redeveloping a nearby school it bought in 2015 as well as building its students a footbridge.
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PEMBROKE has secured approval for a $25 million upgrade of its Kensington Park middle school campus, including a new footbridge spanning Shipsters Rd.
The state’s Development Assessment Commission has now given the project the green light.
The campus will expand to the old Kensington Centre special school, on the western side of Shipsters Rd, which Pembroke bought for $4 million in 2015.
The project will includes a new science, technology and art centre, and a fully-enclosed footbridge to connect school sites on both sides of Shipsters Rd.
The commission asked that final designs for the footbridge, showing how it would impact footpaths and a nearby significant oak tree, be presented to it before work starts.
A report to the commission said the proposed footbridge was of a “high design standard” and would “not impact on the heritage elements” of the area.
It said the footbridge was an “entirely appropriate concept” that would alleviate pedestrian and traffic pressure on Shipsters Rd.
The school unveiled its designs for the campus last year as part of a wider plan to shift its major student intake from Year 8 to Year 7.
That would increase enrolments to 1680 by 2020.
The school last year said it expected to begin construction in the “latter third” of this year and complete it before term 1 in 2019.
A Pembroke spokeswoman declined to comment when contacted by the Eastern Courier Messenger last week.
Pembroke — a proud and evolving history
Pembroke School was established in January 1974 through the amalgamation of two smaller neighbouring single-sex independent schools, King’s College and Girton Girls’ School.
Girton Girls’ School was an independent school for girls established in 1915. Pembroke’s junior and senior schools are located on what is now called the Girton campus.
While King’s College was an independent school for boys founded in 1923 as a joint venture between the Congregational Church and the Baptist Union. Pembroke’s middle school is located on what is now called the King’s campus.
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