A planning application has been submitted to Edinburgh Council which details plans for a new high school in the Liberton area.
The updated plans reveal the school would accommodate up to 1,200 pupils, a GP practice, outdoor sports pitches, a café and a new car park.
Initial proposals were put to the council's planning team in March 2022 that would see the old Liberton High School demolished and replaced with a modern equivalent. CGI images included in the supporting statement show the potential size and stature of the new building.
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The plans state: "The proposed new campus has been briefed and is being designed to accommodate 1200 Liberton High School pupils. This capacity will accommodate current school roles and allow for future growth.
"The campus will also include a large scale NHS Primary Care facility, community library, community cafe and fitness facilities, flexible multi-purpose spaces, spaces for use by external community & authority agencies and Police Scotland accommodation."
Labour MP Ian Murray also shared the planning application on social media, saying: "The planning application for the new school is in. Details below. The new medical practice will be hugely welcomed but it’s important to state that it won’t solve the GP crisis. It’ll merely add about 2,000 spaces. That is welcome but we are still 10,000 or so short."
The plan is to make the building "more than a school" and to pave the way for a more modern approach to education.
Outlining the ethos behind the design the jmarchitects stated: "Entering into the building, you immediately arrive into its dynamic community heart where the library, cafe, reception and school office are located. Different learning activities are visible in the spaces adjoining it.
"From this community space, there are also direct links to the GP surgery waiting room, or the new sports facilities and the assembly hall. It is a space to relax and have a coffee, get a book and a place for students' work to be displayed and celebrated."
It comes nearly eight years after 12 year-old pupil Keane Wallis-Bennett died after a modesty wall in a since-demolished PE changing room collapsed on her — a tragic incident which cast doubt over the structural integrity of the existing building, which opened in 1959.
Funding for the project was secured in 2020 when the Scottish Government announced £800 million investment in educational facilities and Edinburgh Council listed Liberton High's redevelopment as its top priority.
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