FAQs

We would like to build the new sixth form in the very near future, so that students can enjoy its benefits. As with any new building, we need to go through the right process, and we intend to submit a planning application to Leeds City Council in Summer 2022. Once we receive planning permission, we will be in a position to move forward with our plans and set out timescales for opening.

We remain in an early stage of the development. Should planning permission be granted, more information on enrolment will become available at a later date.

Ahead of submitting our planning application, we consulted with members of the public for a period of six weeks (20 June – 8 August) and have gathered feedback.

Once we have submitted our planning application with the local planning authority, there will be an additional public consultation period, details of which can be accessed via the council’s planning portal.

Following our initial round of consultation, we believe these new designs take on board much of the feedback that was provided. We will continue to work with our architects, but we will retain these improvements in the designs we submit in our planning application.

The land we propose building on is currently unused. It was used as playing fields intermittently until 2008. Regular use ended in 2003 with use during the summer seasons of 2007 and 2008. The ground experiences poor drainage therefore all sports use was eventually aborted. It is allocated as playing fields with the wider useable sports fields. It is confirmed that the existing useable pitches will remain. There is also ample sports provision within the community including resurfacing of Crawshaw Academy’s artificial pitch in 2018. It would require a significant amount of work to bring the site back into a useful state (by dealing with drainage/landscaping issues for example) and we believe that the best way of doing that is by providing a great post-16 learning environment. We are working with all relevant bodies to bring these plans forward.

We are now consulting with members of the public, for a period of six weeks, running from 20 June until 31 July. We would encourage you to have your say, by clicking on this link.

Once we have submitted our planning application with the local planning authority, there will be an additional public consultation period, which can be accessed via the council’s planning portal.

This is still currently being devised but we aim to ensure that A level and AS level qualifications will be offered, including BTECs. Other qualifications, such as T Levels, will also be part of the programme. The following departments have been proposed but are not limited to: Business, Creative subjects, Humanities & Language, Maths & Sciences and Social Science.

The building is scheduled to be complete by 2023, opening its doors to students in September of that year.

Up to 600 students would have access to the new sixth form, with around 30 members of teaching staff and a further 10 supporting staff.

The proposal is for a new sixth form college facility to be located off Kent Road, on land directly adjacent to (but independent of) the existing Crawshaw Academy complex.

Mindful of the nearby residential properties that surround the site to the south and east, careful consideration has been given to both the positioning of the building within the site, and the external design of the college. The scheme will be developed using materials that are sensitive to the nearby built landscape.

The proposed facility has a GIFA (Gross Internal Floor Area) of 3,085sqm and is spread over two storeys. The indicative internal layout of the proposed facility comprises of the Social Sciences Department and the Humanities and English Department situated on the ground floor and the Creative Arts Department and the Maths and Science Department on the first floor.

The proposals include 40 car parking spaces (including 2 accessible spaces and 4 electrical vehicle charging points) located to the south of the proposed building, with access coming off Kent Road along the eastern boundary. It is also proposed to provide 60 cycle spaces to the front of the building.