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Timeline for new Park Road school 'indicative only', stresses minister

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Education minister says residents shouldn't expect to see new facility built too soon

The education minister says residents shouldn't expect to see a new school built on the derelict Park Road site immediately. 

The land in central Douglas has been left unused since 2012, only occasionally being used as a car auction lot.

Meanwhile, plans for a new two-form entry primary school on the plot will be laid before Tynwald this month.

It's been long-awaited, but Education Minister Daphne Caine told Manx Radio's John Moss that the project won't be rushed:

 

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