First BSF project for Manchester reaches financial close
Media
14/11/2006
Manchester's Building Schools for the Future and Academies Programme team has achieved financial close on its first BSF project on October 12th, making Manchester only the second Local Authority in England to do so. The project will create a brand new community campus in East Manchester
(the Gorton Education Village) which will comprise a 900 place
mainstream high school and a 100 place specialist support school. The
new school is due to be completed for the start of the autumn term 2008.
Mace (in conjunction with the Place Group) was commissioned from the outset as the overall programme manager for the Manchester BSF programme, responsible for providing strategic formalisation, strategic education visioning and business case development as well as managing the client, consultant and contractor teams.
The £25.4m building will feature a two storey, 100 metre long internal ‘street’, a sports hall and community wing, a learning resource centre with a library and ICT facilities and specialist subject zones for science, humanities and English. The eight acre campus will also include an on site medical suite offering physiotherapy and incorporating a hydrotherapy pool.
The project is part of Manchester City Council’s ambitious £450m BSF programme which will see a total of 27 new schools and six Academies built or refurbished in Manchester over the next six years (subject to further funding agreements with the Government).
Read more about the Manchester BSF and Academies Programme at http://www.manchester.gov.uk/children/projects/bsf
