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Demolition of school buildings is approved
Leicester Mercury
|June 04, 2025
THEY ARE SET TO BE REPLACED BY TEACHING SPACES ON PLAYING FIELDS
A SCHOOL is set to undergo a huge transformation with “unfit” teaching spaces to be replaced.
Five of the buildings at Castle Rock High School, in Coalville, are to be torn down as part of a government plan to refurbish education settings across the country.
They have been described as “no longer fit for modern-day teaching purposes” by the Department for Education (DfE), and are set to be replaced with a two-storey building on what are currently playing fields.
The buildings formerly belonged to King Edward VII Science and Sport College, prior to its merger with Castle Rock in 2020.
This story is from the June 04, 2025 edition of Leicester Mercury.
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