Plans have been submitted for a new £30m secondary school in Cowes on the Isle of Wight.

The Cowes One School Pathfinder project, which has escaped the government’s Building Schools for the Future axe, is expected to be completed during 2012.

Isle of Wight Council is working with Pihl UK as development partner on the new building.

The plans include biomass heating, rooftop study gardens, and a 650 seat conference centre conference centre.

Other facilities will include:

• Music recording studio
• A teaching kitchen
• Rooftop conference area for staff, pupils and governors
• A science garden

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