Paul McCartney attended Joseph Williams Primary School, then in Sunnyfield Road on the Prefab estate, from 1949 to 1953. He travelled by bus to the school because of the shortage of school places in Speke where he lived. The site of the former school, now opposite Viennese Road and Dorchester Road, is part of housing development plans also involving other sites in the area. While an adjacent site was used to build a retirement living development called "Joseph Williams Mews" in 2015, the actual site of the former school remained vacant. In December 2015 "Riverside" informed residents that "Compendium Living" were ready to submit a planning application to build family homes for sale directly on the former Joseph Williams school site.