Former Pears Centre, Ash Green
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Former Pears Centre, Ash Green
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 22 Mar 2020
This is the administration building of the former Pears Centre, a residential school complex built and run by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) between 2011 and 2018 as the RNIB Pears Centre for Specialist Learning. For more on this school see the Wikipedia article here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNIB_Pears_Centre_for_Specialist_Learning and this Third Sector article on its closure https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/rnib-close-inadequate-childrens-home-loss-180-jobs/management/article/1491802 . The site was bought by Warwickshire County Council in 2019 and is being redeveloped as a Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) school; see this Warwickshire County Council document https://democracy.warwickshire.gov.uk/documents/s11173/NBB20CC005%20-%20Proposed%20segregation%20fencing%20vehicular%20access%20gates%20for%20Hydrotherapy%20Pool%20area%20at%20th.pdf .
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Image Location
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