North Lanarkshire Council has been given the go ahead for the development of a new primary school.

Scottish Ministers agreed not to issue a call-in notice following the council's decision to close Dunrobin Primary School along with Petersburn Primary School and Nursery Class.

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The Learning and Leisure Services committee agreed earlier this year to merge the two Airdrie schools and develop a new primary on the Dunrobin Primary School site.

The project is part of wider plans to develop primary school provision in Airdrie:

• Tollbrae and St Edward's primaries will move to a new shared campus on land within the existing grounds.

• A new school for St Dominic's primary.

Development plans for the new schools will now be drawn up.

(LM)