BAM to deliver £25m Wetherby High School
Acting on behalf of the Department for Education, the contractor has lodged plans for the construction of a new 77,500 sq ft school and the demolition of the current 11 buildings, some of which date back to World War Two when the site was used as a naval training base.
The project team also consists of architect Bond Bryan, planning consultant ADAS, landscape designer One Environments, mechanical engineer CSD, structural engineer Roscoe, fire engineer JPI Consultants, and acoustic consultant SRL.
The school will comprise a single building spread across three storeys in a U-shaped block, housing science, general teaching, IT, and sports facilities, along with a canteen.
It will be located on the current playing fields to the south east of the site, so that construction can be completed before the old buildings – all of which have been deemed unfit for purpose – are demolished.
The multi-use games area unit will be kept, although it will be enlarged and refurbished to bring it up to modern standards, and the all weather pitch will also be retained.
As for the exterior, the car park and pick-up points will remain, while new grass playing pitches will be built on the existing school site once the new building is in place.
The school will accommodate 900 pupils and 95 staff, and the aim is for the external sports facilities to be available for the community to use outside of school hours.
Located on Hallfield Lane, next to Morrisons, the 17-acre site is also adjacent to St James CoE Primary School, housing, and a playground.
Excellent funding, spending some of it on energy generation would be good return on money spent in this project.
It would also be kind if some sort of agreement can be reached with the UK Prison Services & Yorkshire Police to facilitate regulated overseen monthly community/charity run sports clubs and football or basic english lessons for people incarcerated at the nearby young offenders/Borstal type institution near to Wetherby.
At best some sort of contribution of this £25 million investment to upgrade the campus, which is welcome, could be ring fenced to fund schemes deigned to reduce violence in prisons by offering a monthly football match, overseen and manged with charities or churches too to fund expanded programs which already exist but are overstretched due to people and money shortages. Could help re-integrate young criminals who can still be saved and who were perhaps failed by society.
Just some thoughts.
By Anonymous
Waste of money
By Anonymous