A new high school which opened just five months ago and received a design award is already too small forcing plans to spend £4.1 million to make it bigger.

The £35m Boroughmuir High School in Edinburgh will need to be extended to take in an additional 300 pupils by 2027.

But there are are questions over there being enough space at Boroughmuir to complete a £4.1m extension.

The school, designed by Allan Murray Architects Ltd and built by O’Hare and McGovern, was awarded Building of the Year in the Edinburgh Architectural Association Awards 2018.

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Opposition councillors have hit out at a lack of planning by the council administration, but the authority said the rise in number of pupils could not have been predicted.

Alison Dickie, City of Edinburgh Council's vice-convener of children and families, said: "The school was originally built to accommodate projected future school rolls.

"Since then there has been a substantial increase in the number of pupils attending Boroughmuir from the feeder primary schools.

"This could not have been predicted when the size of the school was originally determined."

A number of other high schools in Edinburgh will also need to expand to accommodate more pupils over the next nine years, including Balerno, Currie, Trinity and James Gillespie's.

Boroughmuir High School was due to open last year and then in January 2018, but had its opening delayed to February.

Officials said it would allow S4, S5 and S6 pupils to do preliminary exams in January with "minimum disruption".

The school had originally been due to open in August 2016.

It was officially opened in June by the Minister for Higher and Further Education and Science, Shirley-Anne Somerville.

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