A SOMERSET school for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) has applied for permission to expand.

The Inaura School wants to change the use of 12A Leigh Road, in Street, from an office to a school.

Currently, the school occupies 12 Leigh Road, and now wants to use 12A to accommodate up to four extra pupils and staff.

“The school currently occupies four sites, including 12 Leigh Road,” the application said. “Teaching is mainly on a one-to-one bases (one teacher to one student) and is not solely dependent on the use of a single school building, as required by typical mainstream schools, nor does it require many of the usual facilities found in mainstream schools.

“For example, it does not have assembly, does not have formal games, and students are not brought to school by parents.”

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No physical changes to the site are proposed, the application said, with the building originally built in 1925 as Strode School, by Clarks.

“The availability of 12A means that it (the school) will have extra rooms and classrooms adjoining its existing premises and thus will have control over the whole site, including the car park,” the application said.

“The school considers the Leigh Road building and location to be ideal to meet its students’ needs.”

A five-space car park to the rear of 12A will be utilised by staff, in addition to 10 marked spaces already in use, with access from Vestry Road, off Leigh Road.

Inaura School is an independent, co-educational SEND school, catering for young people with complex educational, social, emotional and mental health needs, the application details, with all pupils referred by Somerset Council, as well as the Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and Gloucester authorities.

For more details on the scheme, log on to somerset.gov.uk and search application reference 2025/1589/FUL.

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