April 16, 1954

IT is expected the new Studley Road school will be completed by Easter next year, Redditch District Education Committee was told at its meeting last Friday.

But, said the clerk, Mr WA Sharpe, the matter had been discussed with the education authority and it was felt it may be better to delay the opening until September of next year.

"This will cause a certain amount of difficulty at St Stephens' School, which will be overcrowded," he said.

"I have discussed this matter with the headteachers and they feel they may be able to overcome the accommodation difficulties."

The delay also means accommodation problems for St George's School. But help would be possible because the County Education Authority has included a new primary school in Studley Road in this year's building programme.

When this was completed and the seniors transferred from St Stephen's, there would be a subsequent decrease in numbers at St George's.

The whole question of accommodation at both schools was bound up by the opening of the new secondary modern school, concluded Mr Sharpe.