The Rise School of Excellence has paid £750,000 for two buildings on the site of the former girls’ fee-paying school, as Croydon’s biggest landowners, the Whitgift Foundation, continue to dispose of their properties.
By GENE BRODIE, education correspondent
Making a splash: the swimming pool in Old Palace School – not one of its heritage buildings – has been part of a £750,000 property deal with Rise School of Excellence
The piecemeal break-up of the former sites of Old Palace girls’ private school has continued with the Jubilee Buildings on Church Road and school swimming pool being sold for £750,000 to the Rise School of Excellence, the Whitgift Foundation has confirmed today.
This follows the £4.7million sale last summer of The Great Hall, Old Palace, Science Block and Cathedral Building, to be used by a special educational needs school which opened last September. The Foundation had previously sold the Melville Road site of Old Palace’s prep school for £7million to a Hindu education organisation.
The latest sale brings total receipts for property disposals by the Foundation to around £12.5million in the past 12 months. Those sales will only cover a small part of the £55million lost from the Foundation’s unrestricted funds since 2017.
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