Update on new school building expected this month

An update on a potential new school building for Chepstow is due to be provided to councillors in July. 

Monmouthshire County Council officials will meet with councillors from the town on July 14 the council’s cabinet member for education Laura Wright has said. 

She was asked to outline any planned investment in Chepstow Comprehensive School by Christopher Edwards, the Conservative member for the town’s St Kingsmark ward. 

Cllr Wright said the department has “red lined” the Chepstow School site to detetermine its development potential and provide options for any redevelopment. 

She said: “Officers will be meeting councillors on July 14 to share progress and work undertaken to date.” 

Cllr Wright said the Chepstow cluster, of schools, has been included in the council’s draft nine-year rolling programme to fund new schools that has been submitted to the Welsh Government. 

Over the past decade the county council has provided new secondary school buildings at Monmouth, Caldicot and most recently Abergavenny where the King Henry VIII school became the county’s first all through school for three to 19-year-olds. 

Cllr Wright also said work to replace cladding at Chepstow School and improve a demountable classroom at the Dell Primary School will continue this year.