Whitehall Park School, Islington
Heritage-led redevelopment of locally listed school, providing modern teaching space and building in a conservation area
NT+A worked with Keppie Design and Extraspace Solutions to secure planning permission in 2015 for a new school at Whitehall Park, Islington, London. Although the new school replaced an existing ex-school building, we faced some significant challenges during the planning process:
- The existing building was a locally listed building in a Conservation Area.
- The site for the new school is very tight and contains numerous protected trees.
- The proposed school and play space was being provided on roughly half of the footprint of the previous school site.