Architcture PLB has secured planning permission for an £11.3m expansion to the UK’s largest school for deaf children.

The practice has designed a brand new primary school and boarding block for Mary Hare School, at Snelsmore in Berkshire, as part of a series of new developments for the fee-paying school.

PLB’s “estate rationalisation” also includes a new business centre and conference centre that will co-locate the school’s commercial enterprises – which include earmould manufacturing and hearing-aid repairs – alongside its educational facilities.

…