The City of Edinburgh Council has taken the first step towards the next phase of rebuilding schools in the city by submitting feasibility studies for five new schools to the Scottish Government.
Studies have been carried out on Portobello, James Gillespie’s and Boroughmuir High Schools, St John’s Primary and St Crispin’s school.
Cllr MacLaren Convener of Education Children and Families said "The Council has now allocated £33m, 20% of the total cost of the five new schools, which demonstrates our absolute commitment to these projects.
I am delighted we have now submitted the feasibility studies to the Scottish Government, which were produced working in partnership with each school community. Feedback from parents and staff was extremely useful and will now inform the final business cases which will be completed by June of this year.
We have now done everything possible to ensure the delivery of these projects and I now look forward to working with the Scottish Government to identify funding mechanisms and very much hope that they can assist us to deliver these new schools in the coming years.”
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