Planning lodged for €14m secondary school for Coachford Community College

A compuetr-generated image of the proposed new Coachford Community College in Cork.

A planning application has been lodged for a new €14m 1,000-pupil secondary school for Coachford Community College in the Lee Valley.

The Cork Education and Training Board (ETB) said the proposed 10,900sqm building will, pending planning approval from Cork County Council, be built on a greenfield site next to the existing 70-year-old school to cater for surging student numbers.