Cabinet approves £6m improvement works for four Haringey primary schools

Haringey Council committed to spending more than £6m on improvement works to four primary school buildings and premises after Cabinet approved the project plans on Tuesday night (15 June 2021).

A major review identified areas across the Schools estate that needed addressing in the short, medium and long term.

These findings have duly informed the Children’s Services Asset Management Plan (CSAMP), with the works at Bruce Grove, Campsbourne, Seven Sisters and Stroud Green duly considered as high priorities and placed in this first, initial wave of essential condition works overall.

Cllr Zena Brabazon, Haringey Council’s Cabinet Member for Early Years, Children and Families, said:

These four community schools are the first group of our Haringey primary schools to have these vital capital works.

The funding for these works will ensure the physical environment for all the children and staff is greatly improved.

Alongside the council’s own Capital Programme funding, some £1.248m has been secured from the government towards these projects. This funding for specific works will reduce the carbon footprint of our schools – an additional and welcome contribution both financially and to tackling the climate emergency.

Our Children’s Services Asset Management Plan is a detailed and important document, which will guide our schools’ capital works programme. Drawing this together has involved council officers, heads and governors and I’d like to thank them all for this work, which is now commencing with these four projects.

The works across the four schools overall include installing new heating and hot water systems, new windows and vital health and safety improvements to the buildings.

These condition projects will bring a number of benefits to the schools, with the primary objective of providing improved educational environments for children in line with the council’s Borough Plan.

They will also help the schools reduce their energy demands and thus reduce carbon emissions through technologies and insulation, including double glazing.

All remaining improvement works (Phase 2) for three of these condition projects (Campsbourne, Seven Sisters and Stroud Green) are expected to go before Cabinet for a further decision in September 2021.