An application to convert the former site of Gateacre Community Comprehensive School into 200 homes has been recommended for approval.

Liverpool City Council’s planning committee will meet on 7 July to discuss the plans, which will see the school building demolished to make way for three, four and five-bedroom homes on the land on Grange Lane.

Countryside Properties will spend £2.8 million on the remediation of the site, parts of which have previously been used for landfill, and plans to introduce new landscaping and tree planting to the site once the homes are complete.

The report by the head of planning recommends the scheme for approval, and says: “The head of planning considers that the proposed residential development is acceptable in principle as it would be located in a sustainable location, would be attractively designed and contribute to the range of housing stock available in the locality.”

The school was built in the 1950s but has been empty since 2011, when Gateacre Community Comprehensive School was moved to a new site.

A proposal from Bellway Homes to build 98 homes on the site of the former Police Club on Prescot Road has also been recommended for approval at the meeting on Tuesday 7 July.

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