Walsall schools to get £1m improvement works
More than £1million will be ploughed into improving run-down schools across Walsall.
Just over £100,000 will be contributed by the schools to help carry out repairs, including roof, electrical, heating and extension works, in the coming months.
It is part of a capital maintenance programme proposed by Walsall Council and involves funding received from the Government.
Around £150,000 is to be spent on electrics at Meadow View in Pheasey, and a similar amount on heating and ventilation works at Whitehall Junior in Delves Road.
Roofing works costing £150,000 are also planned at Pool Hayes Arts and Community in Willenhall.
Other primaries earmarked for improvements include County Bridge in Bentley; Lodge Farm, Willenhall; Salisbury, Darlaston and Pheasey Park Farm, Great Barr.
Structural works are needed at Kings Hill, Wednesbury, following the collapse of a parapet wall, worth £75,000.
A report to be delivered by education chief Councillor Rachel Andrew to a cabinet meeting tomorrow says: "All of these schemes will be funded through the capital maintenance allocation received from the Department for Education."
Work on an extension of Phoenix Primary, Leamore, was backed among a series of other school improvements earlier this year.
It is now expected the £80,000 project will be split between the government funding and school contribution.
Councillors are being asked to approve the schemes and permission to seek tenders.
