A JUNIOR school has been granted approval for high fencing to improve security.
Bethany Junior School in Knole Road, Boscombe, will be replacing "dilapidated" fencing with a new 2.4m high boundary.
Its application states: "The works are to improve safeguarding issues at the school site."
The scheme drew an objection from a neighbour who stated the high fence "will have a severe impact on my garden being unsightly, claustrophobic, as well as giving a feeling of living in a fortress or behind a prison wall".
The objection was later dropped, and council officers said the fencing "should be of mutual security benefit to the householders as well as
the school" and was not "overbearing or of a scale that would impinge to light to windows of the housing".
The school is one of five run by the Ocean Learning Trust.
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