PLANS to build a £5m primary school have moved a step forward.
The Stockton Schools Organisation Committee, an independent body, has backed proposals to build a school at Ingleby Barwick.
They made their decision after the Government Office for the North-East notified Stockton Borough Council it would not be calling in the planning application for further investigation.
The school, near Low Lane, will provide 630 school places and a 39-place nursery. When work is completed, Ingleby Mill Primary School will move from its present site to Low Lane and a school will be opened in its place.
Some residents, parish councillors and the Council for the Protection of Rural England, objected to the siting of the school on what was regarded as common land.
However, it was feared that Government money would be withdrawn if a site for the school was not granted this year. All other sites were deemed by council officers as unsuitable or too expensive to buy.
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