[4] It was one of six such centres[5] built around that time that were characterised by shared-use area, collaboration across phases with an inclusive approach to the pupils, their welfare and developing their potential.

The stock transfer, and subsequent change in the reader profile was subject to a study in 1979 published in the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.

Manchester City Council recognised that factors in Cheetham Crumpsall made this area where the experiment could take place.

The adult education centre was to move from old buildings adjacent to Cheetham Secondary Modern School to the proposed FE college.

The existing 19th century public baths on Cheetham Hill Road were due to be closed and replaced with a district sports and recreation centre that would have playing fields, outdoor public recreation space, sports halls and swimming pools.

On a combined site it could provide the reference materials needed for college and school, and have a full lending library with children section and study space.

[13] [14] The BBC reported that the blaze, caused five million pounds worth of damage, destroying two-thirds of the school buildings, forty eight classrooms including the drama and music suites.

[14]A temporary school of 40 classrooms was constructed out of portacabins on the tennis courts to service the nine hundred staff and pupils.

[15] There was a large rise in the birth rate in 2008 in Manchester, manifesting in the need for many extra primary school places starting in 2012.

The 2003 Ofsted report reports: He has been a force for stability and continuity throughout the school's history, not least when the school "kept going" in the immediate aftermath of the devastating fire of 1997; but he has also grasped the need for change and development and in recent years has helped to fix the staff's attention on the need to raise standards of attainment.

[19] Due to COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom in March 2020, there has been staff shortages and prolonged self-isolation and the decision was made for a partial school closure to take place for a month.

This has a high water table, and a subsoil of lenticulated glacial drift containing pockets of clay and running sand overlain in part by peat, so this is not very stable.

CLASP buildings of wood and concrete panel construction encompass a vast number of hidden voids for services.

Hindsight shows that the extensive voids were a design fault, and many CLASP buildings have been destroyed by fire and have posed an asbestos risk.

The Moss was designed between 1968 and 1970 by the DES Development Group, the principal architects being David and Mary Medd, Michael Hacker and Ian Fraser.

This was envisages as a network of multidisciplinary centres, an idea, that through their work at Maiden Erlegh, springs from a recommendation in the Newsom Report pages 46–48.

The 24,000 m² complex was a low and compact 3-storey CLASP network, lit by small courtyards with 25 dispersed entrances linked by high level footbridges with an 'internal street'.

[15] A temporary school of 40 classrooms was constructed out of portacabins on the tennis courts to service the nine hundred staff and pupils.

[15] The BBC reported that the blaze caused five million pounds worth of damage, destroying two-thirds of the school buildings, forty eight classrooms including the drama and music suites.

It is hoped to move the library from within the main-centre to a site within the leisure centre allowing the remaining CLASP 4b cladding to be replaced.

[16] It comprises a school, an adult learning centre (City College), a library, a professional recording studio.

[31] All pupils in state funded community schools are required to follow the National Curriculum that was recently revised in 2014.

The 2011 Ofsted Inspection reported "Students' attainment overall in GCSE examinations has improved year-on-year although it remains consistently below the national average.