Public notices

We must publish these proposals under section 19(1) of the Education and Inspections Act 2006, and having regard to the DfE guidance ‘Making significant changes (‘prescribed alterations’) to maintained schools - Statutory guidance for proposers and decision makers October 2024.

The proposal in this notice is to expand the Highshore School into a satellite provision, that will occupy the whole of the recently closed Comber Grove Primary School from a provisional date of September 2026.

These proposals would see:

• the expansion of the Highshore School to a two-site specialist provision
• the creation of approximately 60 to 70 new specialist places for pupils at Highshore school
• investment into the renovation and refurbishment of the Comber Grove school buildings and site to meet the needs of Highshore school pupils
• more local specialist places meaning more parental choice

The proposals to expand Highshore School was published on 7 April 2025. Within 4 weeks of this date, any person may object to or make comments on the proposal by:

• visiting the consultation page on Engage.southwark  
• emailing schoolcapitalprojects@southwark.gov.uk
• writing to Education Capital Team, Hub 1, 4th Floor, Southwark Council, 160 Tooley Street, SE1 2TZ

The closing date for receipt of responses to the representation period is 5 May 2025 at 5pm. 

The council’s cabinet will meet after the end of the representation period, in June 2025, to take the final decision on the proposal in this notice.

This notice is an extract from the complete proposal. Copies of the complete proposal can be viewed on the consultation page on Engage.southwark.  

If you need a paper copy of this, please email us at schoolcapitalprojects@southwark.gov.uk or write to Education Capital Team, Hub 1, 4th Floor, Southwark Council, 160 Tooley Street, SE1 2TZ.

Michael Crowe
Assistant Director – Transformation and Operations (Children’s Services)