Major plans to completely rebuild Seascale Primary School have moved a step forward.

Proposals for the multi-million pound project have been submitted to Cumbria County Council.

These feature a new single-storey school as well as revised car parking layout, a hard-surfaced play area, new access paths, redesigning of sports fields and community-use facilities.

The school is benefiting from a share of £2bn Government cash, through the Priority School Building Programme, which will see about 280 schools around the country being either upgraded or replaced.

A consultation is taking place and the proposals are set to be presented to the county council's development, control and regulation committee either in March or April.

The firm Elliotts is working on behalf of Priority School Building Programme for the new-build.

In the proposals, Elliotts said: "The school head teacher, leadership team and Cumbria County Council have been fully supportive of our work to deliver the new school through the Priority School Building Programme.

"The target is for the new school to complete in 2019."

The plans would see the school remain open while the new-build takes place.

"The school will be mostly manufactured off site as such disruption to the school during the construction phase is minimised and the build quality and efficiency are improved," said Elliotts.

The current school is an L shape with various facilities including school halls, classrooms and play areas.

The new building would feature a main entrance and two additional pupil entrances with good access to the external play areas.

Elliotts said: "All classrooms have direct access to a new and shared external play area."

It said: "The design addresses privacy, noise, overlooking and preserving the views associated with the adjacent housing to the site’ by ensuring that all teaching and play spaces do not overlook the adjacent houses.

"The orientation and layout of the new building are designed in response to the site, to minimise the impact of the building to the adjacent housing."

It added: "A strategy for segregating pedestrian and vehicular circulation has been developed as a means of improving safety. A new car park and vehicular turning area is proposed at the front of the new school."

Many of the existing landscape areas and features are to be retained.