A school in Cornwall plans to create a new school music and performance centre in order to achieve the high standards it wants to provide.

Truro School, the independent co-educational school based at Trennick Lane overlooking the city, plans to build a new Music & Performance Centre to accommodate an “exemplary array of high-quality facilities for their students and the wider community”.

The current music centre is located in Epworth House and is one of the biggest and busiest music departments in the South West. However, as a building the school says it is not fit for purpose and does not achieve the standards that Truro School would like to provide.

Therefore, the school proposes to create a new building to house the music department, and refurbish the existing adjacent Assembly Hall to provide an improved performance venue to meet the school’s needs.

The new Music & Performance Centre would host a range of concerts, individual instrumental or vocal lessons, student events and teaching classrooms.

The proposed facility would not only serve the musical life of pupils at the school, says a planning report, but will support the work of the Cornwall Music Services Trust, which the school hosts, as well as Truro Cathedral choristers who are educated at the school, and a “widening access to music making and musical experiences for the community beyond the school”.

For more details about application visit the planning portal on Cornwall Council's website, using reference PA23/10143.

All planning applications submitted to the council have to be validated and are available for inspection by the public. Anyone is also allowed to submit comments about the applications – whether in support or objection.

The majority of applications are decided by planning officers at the council under delegated powers. However, some applications will go before elected councillors who sit on planning committees.

No dates has been set for when this planning application will be determined.