Bournemouth could be getting a new 4 million pound academy school to cope with the recent baby boom.

The council need to find 330 reception class places by next September and if the plans are given the go ahead today the town's former Townsend School which shut in 2008 will be reopened and expanded to take some of the those kids.

Neil Goddard from the children's services department explains what would happen next:

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