Work starts on new £7.5 million school in Flintshire
February 02, 2011
by Kate Forrester, DPW West
BUILDING work has started on a new £7.5 million school.
Developers Read Construction Holdings cut the turf at the site of the new facility in Connah’s Quay yesterday.
When finished next year, it will replace the current Custom House Lane Junior School and Dee Road Infants School.
Cllr Nigel Steele-Mortimer, Flintshire Council’s executive member for education, said: “The new school will provide modern, first class facilities for delivering the curriculum in the 21st century.
I look forward to following the progress of the new development and, of course, to when it opens for the pupils in September 2012.”
The new single-storey school is being built on the existing school playing fields and will accommodate 360 primary and 30 nursery pupils.
There will be 12 classrooms, a nursery, assembly hall, studio, kitchen and community facilities, as well as landscaped play areas and two new car parks.
Read Construction Holdings managing director Richard Heaton said: “The new school will act as a beacon for educational excellence both within the local community and Flintshire at large.”
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