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LUNENBURG, N.S. - A school board in Nova Scotia has voted to close three Lunenburg-area schools, including historic Lunenburg Academy.

School board Supt. Nany Pynch-Worthylake calls the decision "just fabulous," because the Town of Lunenburg is giving the provincial government a clear sense of what it wants.

She said the South Shore regional board was faced with deteriorating buildings and declining enrolments.

People living in Lunenburg got together, worked out what they thought would be the best solution for their children and brought it to the board.

That resulted in the board unanimously passing a resolution Wednesday that calls for the closures of Lunenburg Academy, Lunenburg Junior Senior High and Centre Consolidated.

They're also asking for the construction of a new school for students in grades 1 to 9.

That school would most likely be built in Lunenburg.

Senior high students would go to Bridgewater Junior Senior High or Park View Education Centre.

But this is all contingent on provincial approval.

If the money doesn't come through from the Education Department, Pynch-Worthylake said the board is still looking at massive renovations to Centre Consolidated, needed repairs to the two Lunenburg schools and a gradual loss of students.