Decisions to sell a former Norfolk school site and to buy land so another school can move from one town to another have been taken by council leaders.
Two separate decisions - involving the former Woodside school site in Norwich and the Fred Nicholson School in Dereham - have been made by Norfolk County Council's Conservative-controlled cabinet.
At a meeting on Monday, the council's cabinet agreed to sell the five-acre Woodside complex, off Woodside Road in Norwich.
The Norfolk County Council-owned site was once the location of Woodside First and Nursery school.
More recently, it was home to Woodside One Neighbourhood Nursery, which shut last year, while the site also includes the Woodside Centre Community Hub, Norwich Professional Development Centre and a sensory support unit.
The cabinet agreed to declare the site, where children's service staff currently work, surplus to requirements. Staff would move to County Hall.
The council's adult social services department has identified the site as having the potential to be sold to a company which would turn it into housing for independent living/extra care.
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If that does not happen, the site would be sold on the open market.
The cabinet also agreed to buy land in Swaffham where a new school for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) would be built.
That would replace The Fred Nicholson Complex Needs School in Dereham, which would move to the new site, with 52 more specialist spaces created for SEND children aged from five to 19.
John Fisher, cabinet member for children's services said consultation over the closure of the Fred Nicholson school had started.
He said: "It will be, I suspect, a good two years before that closure and the new site is fully operational".
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