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(From Bristol Evening Post)

THE go-ahead is set to be given to a block of 53 apartments for the elderly which will rid Portishead of its ugliest eyesore.

Hampshire-based Churchill Retirement Living want to demolish the boarded-up St Peter's School in High Street, and replace it with the sheltered housing scheme.

Councillors sitting on the district's North Area Committee are expected to give the thumbs up on Thursday after hearing an officer's recommendation to approve the apar tments.

The 172-year-old school complex was closed in 1994 after the pupils left their classrooms to move to a new building in Hallett's Way.

Since then, it has been the victim of scores of vandal and arson attacks. There are large holes in the roof, shards of glass from smashed windows litter the playgrounds, where several trees have taken root.

Churchill Retirement Living originally wanted to build 57 apartments on the site, but the size of the landmark building was reduced ...

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