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Now, though, a fresh bid for a sixth form block, which sees the dance
studio located within the existing performing arts building instead, has
been approved.

It is hoped the building is completely in January next year, with work
due to start in the coming weeks.

The plans also include the demolition of two existing mobile science
blocks.

Prior to the demolishment, the plans say there will be “suitable and
sufficient” surveys to ensure there is “no acceptable amenity harm
arising to the nearby residential occupiers on Eaton Road.”

The design and access statement says the development would allow a
“much-needed improvement of the existing school facilities in the form
of a new sixth form block.”

If built, the sixth form block would feature three classrooms, an ICT
room, a library and a study and cafe area.

Planning documents say the intention of the new single-story block is
to “provide a modern and fit-for-purpose building that would
complement the existing built environment of the school.”

But the new block would not increase the number of students at the
school.

The school has as an overall capacity of 1,730 children with some
1,597 children recorded to be on roll as of March 2020 according to
figures from the Department of Education.

It has three years to begin work on the new sixth form block before the
planning permission expires.

The school, which has students between the ages of 11 and 18,
converted to academy status in September 2014 and forms part of the
Ormiston Academies Trust.

It also has partnerships with the London Guildhall School of Music &
Drama and the Norfolk Centre for Young Musicians.

Jo Philpott, headteacher at City of Norwich School said: “City of
Norwich School is excited to have been granted planning permission