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Search the Public Notice PortalA private school near Wiltshire is seeking to turn a campus it is selling into a private home with a swimming pool, as VAT costs pile pressure on the sector.
As reported earlier in the year, King Edward’s School in Bath is selling its Weston Lane campus – which operates as a nursery and pre-prep school – in a bid to raise vital funds to secure its future.
The campus currently caters to pupils between three and seven years old and has been in use by the school since 1990s. However, as the imposition of VAT on private school fees piles pressure on the sector, the school is looking to make a major change to the organisation of its grounds.
In January, King Edward’s announced it would be uniting the campuses, bringing its pre-prep pupils to the North Road site at which pupils between years three and 13 are based. The school said it is planning to make the change for the start of the 2027 academic year.
The Weston Lane campus is currently on the market for £3 million and is being marketed by Knight Frank. In mid-February, King Edwards applied to turn the school into a single private home.
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Agents acting on behalf of the school say the eventual disposal of the campus in question would provide a funding boost to facilitate the transformation of the North Road campus.
They added it would also provide for the “enhancement of the teaching environment and provision of new facilities on the School’s North Road Campus. This investment will improve the overall quality and functionality of the campus whilst having clear academic and pastoral benefits.”
According to documentation filed with Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) Council, the proposals also include plans to demolish all modern outbuildings, construction of a new extension, a new garage, and a swimming pool.
The school is also seeking to make a number of internal alterations to the grade II-listed building, including the reinstatement of the external courtyard, as well as external landscaping works.
In a statement attached to the application, the agents acting on behalf of the school say that while the pool is not an original feature of the property, it could be made to have a “minimal impact on the historic setting of the listed building” with suitable landscaping.
Statements also tout the “heritage benefits” of getting rid of the large, prefabricated school buildings, which conceal the listed buildings.
The proposed new buildings and formal landscaping would enhance the buildings' setting and complement the character of the conservation area, the application says.
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