Published on:
30
April 2013
Clackmannanshire Council has given planning permission for building work on the new Redwell Primary School in Alloa West to begin.
The new £8.6 million school and nursery will create a 21st century learning environment which will house pupils from the existing St John's and Claremont Primary Schools.
The development, at the Redwell playing fields, to the south of Stirling Road, Alloa, will include a landscaped playground area and school sports facilities.
The Council has been allocated funding of £4.05 million from the Scottish Government Schools for the Future programme for the new school.
Welcoming the decision to grant planning permission this week Education Convener, Councillor Ellen Forson said: "We appear to have a first class school facility, which will also provide a modern community facility and will be an asset that the whole of Clackmannanshire can be proud of. We went through a thorough consultation process in getting to this stage. It is going to be worth waiting for."
The lead contractor will be Robertson's Construction. The architects are Keppie Design, with the civil and the structural engineers Blyth & Blyth. Wallace Whittle have been appointed mechanical and electrical engineers.
There will be 15 classrooms in the modern energy-efficient building, which will be sufficient to accommodate the projected roll of 434 pupils when the school is due to open its doors for the first time in August 2014. This will also meet the projected future increases in roll due to additional house building in the catchment area.
The new single storey school will also include a dedicated nursery, a gym/assembly hall and kitchen and dining area, as well as a full sized grass pitch, which can be divided into two smaller seven-a-side pitches and multi use games area.
In addition there will be an upgrading of lighting on the routes towards the new school, as well as additional road crossings, and alterations to the carriageway aimed at reducing the speeds of vehicles using Stirling Road.
Councillors were shown drawings of the new building and an artists' impression of what the new Redwell Primary will look like.