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Lee Evans Partnership’s (LEP’s) design for
an ‘education campus’ in Whitecliffe,
Ebbsfleet Garden City – has been
submitted for planning to the Ebbsfleet
Development Corporation by developer
Henley Camland. The campus plans will
offer more than 2,200 places to nursery,
primary and secondary school pupils,
as well as serve as a community
sports facility.
The proposal for Alkerden C of E
Academy includes provision for a nursery,
a new two-form-entry primary school, and
an eight-form-entry secondary school; plus
a dual-use community sports centre with
external sports pitches and associated
ancillary facilities for the emerging local
community. The sports facilities will be
aimed at supporting more than 500 users
at a time, and will be designed to Sports
England specification. The combinedschools and associated facilities will
occupy an 11.1-hectare site, making it one
of the largest educational facilities ever to
be built in Kent.
The scale and design of the scheme will
reference the site’s industrial and
agricultural heritage, with the brickwork
of the primary school drawing on the
original reddish-brown quarry topsoil, and
that of the secondary school drawing upon
the underlying chalk landscape. A
landmark ‘corner’ has been incorporated
into the design to serve as a “public-facing
showcase” for the work of students at the
secondary school. The site has been
arranged along a central spine, which
connects the two schools with the external
sports facilities, as well as with the wider
local community. The primary school
classrooms have been arranged to be
north-facing, allowing the provision of agreater number of external south-facing
play areas. Self-contained ‘cloistered’
spaces will also be included where students
can meet and interact.
The primary school and nursery will
accommodate 446 pupils aged 3 – 11,
while the secondary school will provide
space for 1,680 students aged 11 – 18
years and will include a specialist-
resourced provision for pupils
with autism.
LEP’s design looks to incorporate
sustainable methods of construction
as far as possible, opting for cross-
laminated timber (CLT) as the principal
structural material in the primary school.
“This will reduce the amount of embodied
energy in the building, as well as
minimising the quantities of VOCs
used in the construction process,” said
the architects.Design for major education campus in
Ebbsfleet submitted by LEP
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