Members of Cheshire East Council’s children and families committee voted unanimously to pass a motion allowing Pebble Brook School, in Crewe, to extend its age range from four to 11 to two to 11 at a meeting last week.
The move will be temporary from February or March, the council said, for up to two years, when a public consultation will be launched over making the change permanent.
It comes after private nursery group Reach for the Stars Ltd informed the council at the end of October that they would be closing both nurseries on the sites of Pebble Brook Primary School and Underwood West Academy, also based in Crewe, and ceasing to trade on 4 November.
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