A 1200 pupil school with a rooftop playground could soon be coming to Addiscombe.

At a planning committee meeting tonight (July 6), Croydon Council will hear plans to demolish the existing buildings at Rees House, Morland Lodge and 6 Morland Road to develop a 1200 place secondary school.

Part of the plan includes a multi use games area on the rooftop of the four/five storey building.

The development does not constitute an application for planning permission however. Instead it’s to enable members to view it at an early stage and to comment.

With six forms of entry, the school would operate between the core hours of 7:30am and 6pm Monday to Friday and would accommodate 900 secondary school pupils and 300 sixth form students.

The school would also employ 110 full time equivalent staff.

The site has no relevant planning history to this proposal.