A RADNORSHIRE school should be allowed to federate with another primary to save it from closure, councillors have said.
Members of Powys council voted in favour of a proposal that Llanfihangel Rhydeithion Primary School should be allowed to federate with Llanelwedd Church in Wales Primary School.
The school in Dolau already shares a headteacher with the Llanelwedd primary.
However the vote isn’t binding but the council’s portfolio holder for education Councillor Arwel Jones is expected to consider the council’s view when putting forward his proposal for the school to his cabinet colleagues.
Cllr Jones has recommended the school should close in summer 2017.
But the full council has instead given its support to a proposal bought forward by local councillor Hywel Lewis that the school be allowed to federate with Llanelwedd or another similar school.
Councillors backed the proposal with 27 voting in favour and just one against while five members abstained. The council’s nine member cabinet, who will ultimately decide the school’s fate, did not take part in the vote.
Cllr Lewis said Dolau school and Llanelwedd had themselves reached an agreement to share a headteacher and the arrangement was working well.