Planning permission has been granted for the conversion of 6 listed
Georgian townhouses on the Soho Road into a Sikh free school for up to
470 primary pupils; the school will contain a dining hall, sports hall,
roof-top playground and 15 classrooms; half of the places will be
available to the local Sikh community and half will be allocated to the
non-Sikh community; the school will open in September 2011
(News Headlines
23/05/11).