A Moray visitor attraction could be shifted from the school building it currently occupies to create more teaching space.
Elgin Heritage Centre is based at East End Primary, but this week councillors will be asked to approve plans to relocate its historic collection to the town’s library.
Earlier this year Moray Council was warned that primary schools in Elgin faced a capacity crisis in the coming years unless preventative action was taken.
East End is capable of housing 233 pupils, but the roll is expected to balloon to 409 by 2021.
The proposal to re-site the heritage centre would free-up enough space at the school for an additional 130 pupils.
Keith and Cullen councillor Gary Coull first suggested the centre be rehomed in February, during talks on rezoning a number of local schools.
He said: “The heritage centre takes up space that could be used by classrooms, at a time when we are desperate for space in Elgin.”
Under plans which will be discussed by the local authority’s children and young people’s services committee on Wednesday, the heritage centre would move to the learning centre on the first floor of Elgin Library.
A report to the committee says: “No other location has been identified that would provide adequate space to accommodate this service and not involve significant cost.”
The report also reveals that under the scheme visitors would have greater access to computers, parking and other facilities supplied by the library.
And it says that the relocation would increase the centre’s opening hours, to fall into line with those of the library.
Moray Council agreed to a wide-ranging consultation on catchment areas for the town’s six existing primaries in February, and approved plans for two new schools.