Plans for a third primary school at Ebbsfleet Garden City were approved last night.

Ebbsfleet Green Primary School will be in the centre of the Redrow development in Ebbsfleet Green, offering school spaces for up to 420 pupils, with a 26-place nursery.

Run by the Maritime Academy Trust, the school follows Cherry Orchard Primary School in Castle Hill which opened in 2017 and Springhead Park Primary School which will open this September.

An application by Kent County Council included extensive design improvements since it was first put forward, following recommendations from Ebbsfleet Design Forum, and was approved by Ebbsfleet Development Corporation’s planning committee.

The school’s layout was originally planned as a single rectangular block, but is now built around a courtyard, providing a sheltered space for outdoor learning and events, and helping to create more space and brighter classrooms.

The school will open in September 2021.

Up to 950 homes will eventually be on the Ebbsfleet Green site, which already benefits from the first supermarket, pub and hotel in Ebbsfleet Garden City.

Plans have also been submitted for a £55million 2,200 place primary and secondary education campus in Whitecliffe.

Ebbsfleet Garden City now has more than 2,000 homes and an estimated population of nearly 5,000 people. Eventually it will have up to 15,000 new homes.

Ebbsfleet Development Corporation recently announced it had bought 125 hectares of land around Ebbsfleet International station to create Ebbsfleet Central which will deliver a new commercial and residential centre within the garden city providing jobs, homes, community and cultural facilities.

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