Topcliffe Primary School
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Topcliffe Primary School is a primary school located in the Castle Vale
area of Birmingham
in the West Midlands
. It was built in the late 1960s to serve the newly-developed Castle Vale housing estate, and is situated in the north-west of the estate on Hawkinge Drive. The school stands beneath Topcliffe House multi-storey flats - one of just two of the original tower blocks remaining on Castle Vale since extensive redevelopment between 1995 and 2003.
The fact that Topcliffe Primary is located alongside Topcliffe House is the key reason that the tower block was refurbished instead of demolished as part of the local regeneration. Developers who assessed the area after Castle Vale Housing Action Trust was set up in 1993 stated that Topcliffe House's demolition was impractical due to its close proximity to Topcliffe Primary School. The same reason was given for the retention of the area's other surviving tower block, Chivenor House, which adjoins Chivenor Junior and Infant School.
Castle Vale
Castle Vale is a housing estate located near Erdington currently Castle Vale votes with Tyburn Ward which is part of Erdington constituency, northeast of Birmingham city centre in England...
area of Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
in the West Midlands
West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...
. It was built in the late 1960s to serve the newly-developed Castle Vale housing estate, and is situated in the north-west of the estate on Hawkinge Drive. The school stands beneath Topcliffe House multi-storey flats - one of just two of the original tower blocks remaining on Castle Vale since extensive redevelopment between 1995 and 2003.
The fact that Topcliffe Primary is located alongside Topcliffe House is the key reason that the tower block was refurbished instead of demolished as part of the local regeneration. Developers who assessed the area after Castle Vale Housing Action Trust was set up in 1993 stated that Topcliffe House's demolition was impractical due to its close proximity to Topcliffe Primary School. The same reason was given for the retention of the area's other surviving tower block, Chivenor House, which adjoins Chivenor Junior and Infant School.