Croydon Public School to push ahead with multimillion-dollar redevelopment
A plan for an $18m upgrade of Croydon Public School – which would increase the pupil capacity to 1000 – went before a planning panel for a final decision.
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A planning panel has today approved the multimillion-dollar plan to redevelop parts of the Croydon Public School in Sydney’s inner west.
The $18 million proposal, announced last year as part of a $6bn State Government splurge on education grants, will now go ahead and will see the school expanded to the extent that it can now take in 1000 students.
As of February last year, the school founded in 1884 had 680 enrolled pupils.
The upgrades on 39 Young St will include 20 new classrooms, as well as improvements to its core facilities.
Department of Education Planner Sonia Watts told the Sydney East Planning Panel that fill contaminants under one of the buildings would be disturbed during the construction process, but that their remedy would be to “cap and fill”.
“There were contaminants in the fill,” she replied when asked if there was asbestos under the school.
“It was a real mixture (of contaminants in the fill) … there’s a full mix in there.”
The State Government is bankrolling the development as part of a historic investment into public education infrastructure last year, which is set to upgrade 170 schools across the state over the next three years.
The panel also heard the school was planning on removing 49 trees but would be planting 35 once the build was complete.
Last year, a parent had told the Inner West Courier there were concerns about the changes over a reduction in green space at the campus.
No objectors were present at Thursday’s hearing.
Construction is set to be completed by mid-to-late 2021.
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