COUNCILLORS have approved street names for a new housing estate at the old Greenock Academy site.
CCG Homes is due to start building 30 three-bedroom houses on the large plot at Madeira Street.
Councillors agreed with a suggestion by officials to name the new roads ‘Narvik Place’ and ‘Atlantic Court’, after two of the school ‘houses’, which were themselves based on famous sea battles.
The 50-year-old Greenock Academy building was demolished in 2015. It closed in 2011 when the school merged with Gourock High to form Clydeview Academy in Gourock.
The building gained a second career and became familiar to millions of TV viewers UK-wide when BBC school drama series Waterloo Road used it as a set and production base but filming finished in August 2014.
In Pictures: A Look Back At Waterloo Road Being Filmed At The Former Greenock Academy
In Pictures: A Look Back At Waterloo Road Filming On Location In Inverclyde
Former pupils marked the building’s half century with an event in September 2014.
The upper part of the Greenock Academy site was developed as a pre-five centre in 2018.
