Jestico + Whiles have secured planning consent for a new Sixth Form Centre at Stoke Newington School in Hackney, east London

Jestico + Whiles - Stoke Newington school

The practice was previously responsible for the refurbishment of the existing school, an example of Brutalist architecture completed in 1967 by Stillman & Eastwick Field.

The new two-storey L-shaped Sixth Form Centre will house a large common room and cafΓ© on the ground floor with study areas above, and be able to accommodate the planned increase in students from the current roll of 140 to the proposed 300.

A contractor is expected to be appointed by early 2013, with a view to the Sixth Form Centre being operational in late 2013.