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PLANS FOR MAJOR EXPANSION OF HUNGERFORD PRIMARY SCHOOL
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ungerford Town Council’s environment and planning committee on Monday recommended approval of plans for substantial expansion of Hungerford Primary School. The expansion would make way for more students and would help ease congestion in an already crowded school. West Berkshire Council’s planning department notified the committee of the plans which include expansion of the proactive business advice
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existing school including a single storey extension to provide a new hall, studio, kitchen and administration areas. Internal alterations within the exising school would include demolition of the swimming pool and expansion of the external play areas “to account for the increased floor area and student numbers”. Committee members expressed concern over mounting traffic and parking problems and accepted that West Berkshire Council was giving this thorough consideration. The school which has an excellent reputation for education has been crammed with students for several years. No mention has been made of possible disruption during building. It has been hoped that more students move up to John O’Gaunt School which has been around 200 students below capacity and a cause for concern.
ROMAN DIG STARTS AT BOXFORD
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xcavation of an extensive Roman villa and possible settlement is again forging ahead at Boxford thanks to a £62,700 grant from the Lottery Fund. Digging will continue until September 6 and Boxford History Project workers are confident they will unearth more interesting finds and thoroughly document them. The name of the villa and that of the family are a mystery and may emerge. It is situated on the north side of the River Lambourn close to a Roman Road, probably Ermin Street running west to east. Around 40 interested people attended a preliminary lecture in Boxford church on Monday evening before new excavations began on Tuesday. It is believed that the main villa earlier unearthed was substantial and of two storeys. Much of the building material appears to have been pillaged over the ages and was probably used in other buildings in the district. “Over the past three years, Boxford History Project (BHP) has been helped by the Berkshire Archaeology Research Group (BARG) and Cotswold Archaeology (CA) to undertake preliminary geophysical surveys of all three potential sites and identified varied building outlines, predominantly from the Roman period. Trial excavations took place on the largest of the sites two years ago with some exciting finds. This grant enables BHP in a formal partnership with BARG and CA to investigate the function, extent, status, chronology and relationship between the three sites, which seem to represent a significant focus of high-status Roman occupation in the Lambourn Valley, with the Roman Road, Ermin Street nearby”.
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