The Education Funding Agency (EFA) has chosen the Rosehill All-Weather Pitch as its preferred site for the proposed new secondary school in Sutton.

A spokesperson for Sutton Council said:

“We have been advised that the Education Funding Agency (EFA) has chosen a site for Sutton’s new secondary school. We will continue to work with the EFA and the secondary school to take it forward.  Ever since we identified the need for a new secondary school to open in 2017 with another possibly needed in 2019, we have been working hard to find two suitable sites in Rosehill and Belmont which we offered to the EFA along with feasibility studies for each. The Belmont site will still be available for a new school should we need one to open in 2019. The exact size of the school would be decided at a later date taking into account the need for school places.

“If a school is not developed on the site then we have many other options for the land including being part of proposals to develop a world-leading Life Science Cluster for drug development and treatment with our partners the Royal Marsden and the Institute of Cancer Research.”