Heartlands High is a brand new community secondary school for 1,105 students aged eleven to sixteen. Supported by a fully integrated learning faculty,the school will also cater for students with autism. Serving the Haringey Heartlands regeneration area, the school is located on a former railway embankment between Wood Green Common and Alexandra Palace Park. tp bennett designed a school that is sustainable, fully inclusive, has the flexibility to adapt to new ways of learning and supports & encourages each student's development. The school specialises in the visual arts & media to assist the developing cultural quarter of the town. The site presented a number of challenges & constraints, including its location next to the main railway line used by high speed heavy goods trains, a 5 to 7 metre high steep embankment running north to south, its position in a heavily wooded setting between two conservation areas and a culverted river passing beneath the site from east to west. The school was funded as part of the former Government's 'Building Schools For the Future' programme.