A school has promised to fight on for more classroom space and a new hall despite plans being knocked back twice.
Governors, staff and children at Stisted CofE Primary School have been campaigning for two new classrooms, staff room, storage space, toilets and a hall for a number of years.
Essex County Council gave the school a grant of £400,000 to help pay for the work.
But at a meeting of Braintree Council's Braintree Area Committee last week members voted to defer the plans for the second time.
The application was previously put on hold in September due to concerns about the location and height of the hall.
Objectors to the plans which includes Stisted Parish Council feel the hall should be located in another part of the school's grounds.
Despite this the school said it would not be put off and will continue to push for the extension work.
Headteacher Stephen Young said: "We desperately need the extension and the new hall, at the moment the children have to make dangerous walks along a main road to the village hall for PE."
Published Wednesday October 16, 2002
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