COUNCIL members look set to give the go-ahead for a block of temporary external classrooms at a Newport primary school to be used by students at the city’s new Welsh-language secondary school.

Although the new school on the site of Duffryn High in Lighthouse Road, to be named Ysgol Gyfun Gwent Is Coed, is not expected to be fully built until summer 2018, around 90 students have already been accepted to start this September, with another 120 the next year.

In the two years it will take to build the new school students will share space at Ysgol Gymraeg Bro Teyrnon in Brynglas Drive.

A planning application was lodged to set up a temporary two-storey classroom block at the primary school. This was deferred at a planning committee earlier this month following concerns around the impact on traffic in the area.

It will again go before the committee at a meeting on Wednesday, July 6, where members will be presented with a report by contractors Newport Norse saying the development would result in “only a marginal increase in trips generated to and from the school.”

The report also said it would have “no material impact on the safety or operation of the local highway network.”

If the application is permitted the buildings will be placed on an area on the west of the site currently used as a netball court, while 31 new parking spaces will be built on a current playing field.

Although one neighbour living near the site has raised concerns around the potential for anti-social behaviour involving young people using the new parking area outside school hours, the council has said the area will be gated and will be locked when the school is closed.

The full application, which is recommended for approval can be seen at newport.gov.uk and search for 16/0374.