PLANS are under way to provide a permanent home for ChurcherÕs College Junior School in The Spain at Petersfield.
Last week plans for internal alternations, re-painting and re-slating, together with a new conservatory at Morton House in The Spain, went before Petersfield town councillors.
They said they had no objections to the plan, which will now be decided at East Hampshire District Council.
ChurcherÕs has been battling to establish a new junior school for several years.
The college finally got the go-ahead last March for a new junior school to be built on its Ramshill campus after 15 months of delays and negotiations.
But the governors decided to put the controversial plans on hold last September while they looked for an alternative site.
And in February this year chairman of the governors Michael Gallagher announced that the existing school site in The Spain had been bought by ChurcherÕs College and the future of the junior school would be secured there.
He said a series of restrictive conditions concerning access to the Ramshill campus site had left the governors with no choice but to explore the alternative strategy.
A phased improvement of the junior school facilities in The Spain was being planned, he added, and it was hoped that the main house would be refurbished during the summer holidays.
Next year a new building was planned at the bottom of the site, said Mr Gallagher, and the existing external classroom building would be demolished.