The school was targeted by arsonists in 2000

Final details of the plan for Dorset's Lytchett Minster School are being discussed by the school and council.

The two have previously clashed over the scheme to replace temporary classrooms used at the school since a fire in 2000.

Concerns over layout, staircases, toilets and classroom shapes were raised at a recent public exhibition.

The plans, which will double the teaching capacity at the school, will be submitted for planning approval in April with the block hoped to be completed in the summer of 2008.

The building will provide classrooms for science, maths and humanities, and will include ten laboratories.

Councillor Fred Drane, who is a governor of the school, said: "I have been working very closely with both the school and Dorset County Council to achieve a plan that will give the staff and children the best building possible to accommodate their educational needs, that will pass planning constraints, and will be completed in 2008.

"The plans have been delivered on time and hopefully meet the school and public's aspirations, subject to the concerns they raised at the meeting."