Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Project status
Construction under way: first school to open January 2009
Knowsley, a Wave 1 BSF local authority, has ambitious plans to replace all of its secondary schools with seven new learning centres in a single phase of work.
Construction began on five sites in August 2007, and the first learning centre - North Huyton - is expected to open in January 2009, with all schools completed by January 2010.
Knowsley's LEP Partners
| Bidder | Transform |
| Lep Equity Provider | Balfour Beatty Investments |
| Construction | Balfour Beatty |
| Design | Aedas, Faber Maunsell, Cyril Sweett |
| Hard FM | Haden |
| Soft FM | Haden |
| ICT | RM |
| Partnering Services | |
| Funders | RBC |
Wave 1
Funding:
| Conventional Funding | £3.5m |
| PFI Credits | £249.9m |
(Includes ICT. Funding allocations are indicative and are likely to change.)
Knowsley's seven new learning centres are:
- North Huyton joint Catholic/Church of England Learning Centre
- Halewood Community Learning Centre
- Prescot and Whiston Community Learning Centre
- Kirkby Community Learning Centre
- South Huyton Community Learning Centre
- Prescot and Whiston RC Learning Centre
- Kirkby RC Learning Centre
