Millions of pounds from housing developers to fund school expansions across Derbyshire
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Each time a housing developer has plans approved for medium and large homes schemes, they are asked to provide money to offset the impact their project will have on the area.
This includes money for creating space for more students at primary and secondary schools in the vicinity of each site.
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Hide AdAt John Port School in Etwall, £1.7 million is being spent on a two-storey sixth form extension – with money pooled from seven housing schemes.
Further funds from housing developers has been directed to another eight Derbyshire schools, sourced from 18 approved homes schemes.
These schools and expansions are as follows:
Tibshelf Community School will be getting £834,000 towards further classrooms
Hallam Fields Junior School in Ilkeston is getting £528,000 towards a two-classroom extension
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Hide AdWilliam Allitt School in Newhall is getting £485,000 towards a three-classroom extension
Eureka Primary School in Midway, Swadlincote, is getting £303,000 towards a three-classroom extension
Etwall Primary School is getting £46,000 towards a two-classroom extension
Clowne Infant School will be getting £9,000 towards improving facilities
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Hide AdSomercotes Infant School will be getting £12,000 towards improving facilities
Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in Ashbourne will be getting £289,000 towards plans for six new classrooms
Meanwhile, the county council is also dispersing nearly £15 million in Government grants to dozens of schools across Derbyshire for both extensions and repairs.
This includes:
Anthony Gell School, Wirksworth – £744,000 towards the replacement of the flat roof, coverings and insulation for block one and pitched roof, coverings and insulation to block two
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Hide AdBamford Primary School – £181,000 towards the replacement of the pitched roof and coverings
Belmont Primary School (foundation site), Swadlincote – £157,000 towards new heating pipework and radiator works
Belper Long Row Primary School – £70,000 towards a new boiler and heating system
Belper School – £870,000 towards the replacement for flat roof coverings and an insulation project
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Hide AdBirkhill Infant School, Eckington – £12,000 towards kitchen ventilation works
Breadsall Primary School – £967,000 towards a new school
Brockwell Junior School – £17,000 towards a new entrance
Buxton Community School – £1.15 million towards window and door framing replacements
Cavendish Junior School – £14,000 towards a flat roof
Chapel-en-le-Frith Primary School – £62,000 towards a classroom extension and a new boiler
Clowne Junior School – £181,100 towards an electrical rewire
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Hide AdCoton-in-the-Elms Primary School – £120,750 towards the replacement of drains and playground resurfacing
Crich Junior School – £162,000 towards a boiler and heating system replacement
Croft Community Infant School – £72,500 towards the replacement of the pitched roof coverings and an insulation project
Darley Dale Primary School – £9,000 towards kitchen ventilation works
Etwall Primary School – £17,100 towards two new classrooms
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Hide AdFindern Community Primary School – £300,000 towards a new sewage plant system
Hady Primary School, Chesterfield – £30,000 towards a drainage scheme
Herbert Strutt Primary School, Belper – £180,000 towards a ground heat source pump and a boiler replacement
Highfields School, Matlock – £130,000 towards an all-weather sports pitch
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Hide AdHunloke Park Primary School, Wingerworth – £968,000 towards a new three-classroom block
Killamarsh Infant School – £175,000 towards a new roof
Killamarsh Junior School – £72,500 towards a heating system renewal
Linton Primary School – £138,000 towards an electrical rewire
New Mills School – £12,000 towards kitchen ventilation works
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Hide AdNewtown Primary School, New Mills – £45,000 towards an electricity supply upgrade
Northfield Junior School, Dronfield – £148,500 towards the replacement of flat roof coverings
Parklands Infant and Nursery School, Long Eaton – £648,000 towards a replacement of flat roof coverings and rooflights and an insulation project
Parkside Community School, Chesterfield – £285,000 towards the replacement of the pitched roof coverings and an insulation project
Pilsley Primary School – £13,000 towards plant room works
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Hide AdRipley Infant School – £179,400 towards an electrical rewire
Spire Junior School, Chesterfield – £65,000 towards heating pipework renewal
William Levick Primary School, Dronfield Woodhouse – £50,000 towards electrical rewiring