PLANNING chiefs are set to make a decision on proposals to install a security fence at a school in Lymm.

Ravenbank Community Primary School, on Pepper Street, has proposed 2.4-metre-high fencing to be fitted on the site’s northern boundary.

Officers, who have recommended the scheme be approved by the development management committee at the Town Hall next Wednesday, say it will have no adverse impact on levels of privacy in the locality, or be ‘overbearing and obtrusive’.

In a planning statement, they said the scheme is considered acceptable in terms of design, visual amenity and residential amenity – and that it would comply with policies in the local plan core strategy.

They added: “The local plan core strategy states that the council will seek to, among other things, achieve high quality, inclusive and sustainable design of buildings, places, spaces, sites and streets and that it will look positively upon proposals that harmonise with the scale, proportions and materials of adjacent and/or existing buildings.

“In the context of the existing building and the site as a whole, the proposal is considered to harmonise with the overall scale and proportions of the wider site.

“This is assisted by the visibility allowed through the fence and the dark green colour proposed.

“Therefore, the proposed security fence is not deemed to have a detrimental impact upon the existing street scene.”