Prospect has less than two weeks to lodge objections.

A notice of Government's intention to build the $40-million school for some 700 senior secondary students appeared in the Official Gazette on Friday.

The plans call for a "state-of-the-art'' senior secondary school, a playing field, access roads, and parking lots on the 19.4-acre property which was once home to the old hotel college, Robert Crawford school, and Prospect Secondary school for Girls.

The high schools later merged to become Devonshire Academy which closed in 1991.

Government aims to open the senior secondary school -- a key part of its public school reform plans -- in 1997.

Demolition work at the site began this summer and is scheduled to be completed in six months. Construction is expected to begin immediately afterwards.

Work to expand roads leading to the site has also begun.

The senior school and Berkeley Institute, which is scheduled to be converted into a senior secondary school by 1999, will take more than 1,000 students from middle schools and prepare them for college or the workforce.