Plans to extend Little Horsted Primary School, near Uckfield

Plans have been submitted to extend and alter Little Horsted Primary School.

They include:

extending and adapting the school hall to provide new stores and servery,
building a new library and IT space,
extending the school office and adapting the main entrance.

The hall extension will be in the south and central part of the school, the library and IT area will be built north of the school house and the office extension will be at the north end of the school.

A planning application before Wealden Council says the extensions are in keeping with the existing scale and massing with the hall being a double height space and the other extensions single storey.

A planning statement says: "The proposed extensions are the final stages of the current school development plan to ensure the school achieves minimum area requirements as laid down by the Department for Education for a half-form entry school."

It goes on to say the school is close to two listed buildings, the Grade II parish Church of St Michael & All Angels, which has a Norman chancel and 15th Century tower with the remainder being re-built by Sir Gilbert Scott in 1863.

The other listed building is the rectory, again Grade II which was built around 1830 and is a two-storey house with red brick walls and a slate tiled roof.

"The proposed extensions, as mentioned previously, will be sympathetic in scale and materials to the existing school, also the extensions are shielded from the listed proposerties by the existing school building and it is highly unlikely that they will be visible at all when viewed from the two listed buildings," says the document.