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Northamptonshire schools to get £20m improvements
Multi-million pound schemes to improve schools in Northamptonshire are set to be approved next week.
Northamptonshire County Council's cabinet will be asked on Tuesday to agree deals totalling 20m to build Maplefields School in Corby and a number of other improvement schemes at schools including Mawsley Primary School, Bishop Stopford School in Kettering, Cranford Primary School and Titchmarsh Primary School.
The cabinet will be asked to award the contract for Maplefields School, which will be built on the former Beanfield Secondary School site, and the council plans to award the contracts for developments at the other schools in the next few weeks.
The authority's corporate director for children and young people, Paul Burnett, said in his report to councillors the projects would lead to the creation of two new classrooms and a studio at Mawsley, a unit for pupils with autism at Bishop Stopford and new halls at Cranford and Titchmarsh.
In addition, councillors will also be asked to agree that Stanion Primary School and Wilbarston Primary School should be among the first of 40 schools built during the 1960s and 1970s to undergo repairs.
Mr Burnett said: "There are 40 schools that were constructed or extended in the late 1960s or early 1970s in areas of the county that experienced rapid growth. The construction method at the time is now causing structural problems with the roof and windows and a programme of repairs is under way. In some cases, emergency propping has had to be installed as a temporary measure."
The other schools from the period will be surveyed. The building works will be paid for by funding the council receives from the Government for schools and are expected to cost nearly 20m this year.
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