Government contractors signed-off on three school building projects costing £45 million that will now be demolished and rebuilt over safety concerns.
Sir Frederick Gibberd College, in Essex, Haygrove School, Somerset, and Buckton Fields Primary School, Northampton, will all be rebuilt after surveys found they could not withstand “very high winds or significant snowfall”. Two opened in 2020 and the third in 2021.
The schools were told in August to close their almost-new buildings constructed by Caledonian Modular.
Closures meant a staggered start to term at the schools, with some pupils being temporarily transferred to other school sites.
