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Plans for new Welsh medium school with double the capacity set to be approved

16 Jul 2021 2 minute read
A map showing where the new Ysgol Sant Baruc will be built Picture: Google

Alex Seabrook, local democracy reporter

Plans for a new building on Barry Waterfront for a Welsh medium primary school are set to be approved.

Ysgol Sant Baruc will double in size, moving from its current building on St Paul’s Avenue to the Waterfront.

The new school will have twice the capacity when opening in September next year, increasing from 210 places currently to 420. There will also be 48 nursery places.

The expansion of the school should cater for growing demand for Welsh-medium primary places, from the new housing developments on the Waterfront.

Vale of Glamorgan council is likely to grant planning permission for the new school at a meeting on Wednesday, July 21.

Barry Waterfront Consortium will build the school, as part of a Section 106 agreement with the council. The group is made up of housing developers Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey and Barratt.

‘Vision’

Planning agents Powell Dobson said: “The vision for the school is a progessive education facility, which achieves best practice in regards to a design that supports educational achievement while being compact and value for money.

“The proposals will provide a first-class educational facility, tailor made to meet an increasing demand for a school in the Barry Waterfront area. It represents a valuable public investment in what is an increasingly popular location, and will enhance the network of local schools.”

They gave details of the plans for the school in a design and access statement, submitted as part of the planning application.

The school will be built on a two-hectare brownfield site off Ffordd y Mileniwm, opposite the Asda supermarket. The two-storey building will include 14 classrooms, one nursery room, and two halls. There will also be three grass football pitches, and a multi-use games area.

The new school was originally due to open in September this year, but the opening was delayed until next year due to negotiations between the council and the developers taking longer than expected.


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j humphrys
j humphrys
2 years ago

More, please!

Stephen Owen
Stephen Owen
2 years ago

Da iawn 😊

Chris
Chris
2 years ago

The concept artists didn’t spend long on that map eh?
So Saint Baruc was a disciple of Saint Cadoc who forgot to bring Cadoc’s reading material with him from a trip to Flat Holm (probably a John Grisham from what I hear of Cadoc). So Cadoc demanded he go back to FH to get it (I’ve known bosses like that. Maybe Cadoc should have bene Saint Karen). Baruc drowned on the way back.
Didn’t seem to be that hard to get a sainthood back in the day

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