School to erect perimeter fence 'for protection

‘ASSAULTS, DRUG DEALER, AND PERSON WITH KNIFE'

- DANIEL CLARK

A MASSIVE new perimeter fence around Lipson Co-operative Academy will be built for ‘safeguarding reasons’ according to a planning application which revealed someone going into the school with a knife as well as assaults on students and teachers.

Plymouth City Council planners have given the go-ahead for the school’s plans for new 2.4m high perimeter fencing.

Details with the application outline a series of incidents which has led to the fence being required. They include a non-school member who entered the school and produced a knife, a physical assault involving a female student and a male non-school member, and unauthorised access by a known drug dealer.

Another incident saw a teacher attacked by a dog during school hours causing significant injuries. Suspicious people onsite watching children, and verbal assaults are also mentioned on the incident log with the application.