A VILLAGE primary school is looking to expand its nursery provision by installing a new unit on its grounds.

Shaldon Primary School’s application for a new, single-storey modular nursery building will allow it to provide dedicated nursery facilities.

It will include an open plan multi-use hall space, office, quiet room, kitchenette, storage and toilets.

The proposal will provide ‘a fuller educational offering to the local community’, the design, access and heritage statement for 25/01258/FUL says.

It will also offer nine new staff positions, directly linked to the nursery, the statements adds.

At present, the school offers a non-residential educational setting for four to 11-year-olds.

The provision of the nursery building will ‘extend this provision to facilitate a much needed pre-school offering on the site – a provision for which there is a deficit locally’.

Shaldon Primary School was among five Devon schools that received awards from the Department for Education’s school-based nursery capital grant.

The grant was for schools to either build new nurseries or expand their existing facilities.