St Mary's Hall Site

The current school was built in 1970 and since this time it has been extended and altered. It is of a distinctly post modern architectural style.

The school is L-shaped and its interior contains light, airy and welcoming classrooms. However, none of these were designed for specialist teaching.

There is a small hall whose use is stretched as it has to house performances, rehearsals, assemblies, music classes and daily dining.

St Mary’s Hall Proposal

Design approach

St Mary’s Hall campus would welcome a new facility that is sustainable and of high architectural quality, with materials that reference other existing infrastructure in Brighton. The campus would accommodate local children from nursery age through to Year 6.

The new school building will be positioned to the south east of the site, forming a new welcoming entrance to the campus. A multi-use hall will be incorporated, with a separate access, fronting onto the existing playing field, which will be enhanced with better drainage, irrigation and stitching, enabling external community use.

The existing school will remain operational during the building of the new facility. Construction will be carefully and considerately managed having regard to the school and its surrounding neighbours.

The College will adopt a Travel Plan to manage traffic and servicing during both the construction and operational stages of development.

This might involve staggered drop off arrangements, incremental use of its own minibus fleet and incentives to encourage the use of public transport.