Rural Clifden in Co Galway is to get an educational boost with news that the local school is planning to build a new, two-storey and part three-storey school building.

According to the website www.unearthore.com the new Clifden Community School will be 3,900 sqm and be developed along with a new school entrance and associated internal access roads, parking spaces, landscaping and drainage works including an on site waste water treatment plant, while the existing school is to remain operational.

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Then, the demolition of the existing school building and associated pre-fabricated classroom structures will take place.

This means that particular construction management constraints will apply due to works adjacent to operational school.

The location of site is also adjacent to a Special Area of Conservation, so extra care will be taken in that respect too.

The architect is De Blacam and Meagher and the consulting engineer is White Young Green.

(BMcC/GK)