Rival bidders submit Buildings Schools for the Future plans (From Bridgwater Mercury)

Rival bidders submit Buildings Schools for the Future plans

12:52pm Thursday 24th December 2009

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TWO bidders have submitted rival plans for how three new schools in Bridgwater should be built.

Aura and BAM, which are vying for the £100million Building Schools for the Future project, have submitted detailed designs for the new Chilton Trinity Technology College, Robert Blake Science College and Elmwood School.

The winning consortium will be chosen in February.

Building work on the three schools is then due to begin next summer and they are due to open by the end of 2012.

Building work on the three other Bridgwater schools in the BSF project, East Bridgwater Community School, Penrose School and Haygrove School, will begin in early 2011, subject to planning permission.

John Osman, county councillor responsible for children and young people, said: “This is a major milestone for a project that will bring tremendous benefit to education in the Bridgwater area and we are delighted to have bidders of such high quality.”

Tim Byles, chief executive for Partnerships for Schools, which is running the national BSF programme, said: “I am pleased to see that Somerset's scheme is progressing well.

“Across the country we have seen over 130 schools benefit from Building Schools for the Future investment, with 96 local authorities engaged in projects to improve the life chances of school pupils and local communities as a whole.”

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