Stone Lodge School
free school in Kent, England
Stone Lodge School is a co-educational secondary free school for pupils aged 11 to 19, located in Stone, a village near Dartford in Kent, England. It is a member of the Endeavour Multi-Academy Trust (MAT). The school admitted its first cohort of Year 7 pupils in September 2019 and relocated to a purpose-built permanent campus in early 2022.
History
Land
The land on which Stone Lodge School now stands has a long industrial and rural history. In the early twentieth century it formed part of the Kent Portland Cement Works, itself developed from the former Stone Court Chalk Works, and quarrying activity continued on the site until the 1980s. Following the exhaustion of chalk reserves, the pit was infilled as landfill between 1981 and 1993 and subsequently restored to rough grassland.
By the 2000s the area consisted largely of open green space interspersed with recreational facilities, including bowls clubs and a rugby club on Cotton Lane. The Stone Lodge Judo Centre, an Olympic-standard dojo, opened on the site in 2006. Beyond these uses, the land remained substantially undeveloped through the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
In August 2018 Dartford Borough Council submitted an outline planning application for a mixed redevelopment comprising an eight-form-entry secondary school, up to 140 residential dwellings, and public open space.
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