Kingswood 1,000 pupil secondary school is near approval after 30 years

Kingswood 1,000 pupil secondary school is near approval after 30 years

By Mary Dennehy

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THE planning application for a new 1,000 student secondary school in Kingswood is expected to be lodged with South Dublin County Council in the coming weeks, The Echo has learned.
The design team on the major building project recently completed the detailed design stage, which includes the application for planning permission, other statutory approvals and the preparation of tender documents.

The school, which is included in the Department of Education’s five-year building programme, is due to proceed to tender and construction in 2015/2016. 
As reported in The Echo in 2013, the patronage of the school, which will cater for up to 1,000 students, will be the Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board, formally the VEC. 
News that the planning application is imminent, and that a site notice has been erected, will be welcomed by families in Kingswood and Kilnamanagh who have been campaigning for a post-primary school for more than 30 years – with many families moving into the area based on a promise that a secondary school would be built to complement the primary schools. 
The site behind St Kilians’s National School has been reserved for decades and will soon become home to a state-of-the-art secondary school – which the Department of Education has, in the past, said will be innovative in design with social spaces and sunlight. 
Tallaght Fianna Fáil TD Charlie O’Connor told The Echo: “The proposed development is creating much interest in the area and I have represented to the Department concerns expressed to me by local residents on issues including traffic management.”
He added that the Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O’Connor TD, has intended that the opening date for the school was in 2016/2017.

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