Moreland Primary School and adjoining sites on the King Square Estate

A public consultation for the draft planning brief for Moreland Primary School and adjoining sites on the King Square Estate is being held between Monday 6 February and Friday 16 March 2012.

The Council wants to improve Moreland Primary School, the Children's Centre and public spaces around the school and the King Square Estate. The Council also wants to meet the pressing need for new homes in the area, particularly affordable homes and homes suitable for families.

The Council has prepared a draft planning brief to guide the rebuilding of Moreland Primary School and other changes which could be made to improve the northern part of the King Square Estate. We would like your views on the draft planning brief.

Planning briefs play an important role in helping to shape how an area could be developed and what benefits the development should bring to the local community. It will be used to guide decisions on future planning applications for the area.

The draft planning brief supplements the Finsbury Local Plan (Area Action Plan for Bunhill and Clerkenwell) which also provides planning guidance for the area.

Our objectives for any future development of the Moreland Primary School and King Square Estate area include to:

 

• Rebuild Moreland Primary School and the associated children's centre to provide up to date educational facilities together with high quality playground space and a new multi use games area
• Develop part of the Moreland Primary School site and the adjoining sites to provide new homes, particularly affordable homes and homes suitable for families
• Ensure that new buildings and new public spaces are designed to a high standard which positively contributes towards the character of the area
  Improve the streets and public spaces in the northern part of the King Square Estate to provide safer and more attractive walking connections to the surrounding neighbourhoods
• The draft planning brief for the Moreland Primary School and adjoining sites on the King Square Estate can be viewed with the link at the bottom of this page.
  
  

Disposals or changes in use of school playing fields

The Council must consult separately on any plan that requires the disposal or change of use of school playing fields.

 

Moreland Primary School will reduce its intake from two forms per year to one form per year and will therefore require less space. This will leave some extra space that could be developed to build housing that will help pay for the new school and provide much needed new homes.

Therefore the Council intends to declare part of the Moreland Primary School site surplus to educational requirements, and is consulting on this proposal from Monday 6 February to Tuesday 8 May 2012.

For further details of this Section 77 consultation on the part disposal or change of use of school playing fields please click  HERE

If you wish to speak to someone about the proposals to change the use of and/ or dispose of part of the site please contact David Asquith on 020 7527 5799 or Fran Stewart on 020 7527 5954.

The closing date for the playing field disposal consultation is Tuesday 8 May 2012

 

How to find out more about the Moreland Primary School and adjoining sites on the King Square Estate draft planning brief:

 

If you would like to find out more please visit our exhibitions at:

Moreland Primary School Moreland Street, London, EC1V 8BB
Wednesday 8 February to Friday 16 March 2012

Finsbury Library 245 St. John Street, London, EC1V 4NB
Wednesday 8 February to Friday 16 March 2012

These exhibitions will not be staffed.

 

Drop-in events where there will be people to answer your questions will be held at:

Moreland Primary School                Finsbury Library                   Finsbury Library
Moreland Street                                   245 St. John Street               245 St John Street
EC1V 8BB                                             EC1V 4NB                              EC1V 4NB
Wednesday 22 February                  Friday 24 February              Saturday 25 February
3.00 - 8.00pm                                     11.00am - 2.00pm               11.00am - 2.00pm

The draft planning brief document contains a lot more information, including plans and drawings, please view it at the bottom of this page.
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To give your views on the draft planning brief you can:

 

• Visit our website and fill out our online feedback form: Please click here
• Email your comments to: spt@islington.gov.uk

If you want to speak to someone about the draft planning brief please contact Eshwyn Prabhu on 020 7527 2450.

The closing date for the planning brief consultation is Friday 16 March 2012.

The consultation results will be published here later this year.

The Council's Executive will be asked to consider the public consultation feedback and adopt the planning brief on Tuesday 15 May 2012.