Derby schools set to benefit from £3m improvements

Littleover Community School is set to receive just shy of half a million pounds for roof works

Twelve schools in Derby are set for £3m of major improvements later in the year.

Derby City Council is likely to approve a series of projects at council-owned schools to be carried out during the school summer holidays.

Some of the projects are designed to avoid further damage, which could cause partial or "potential school closures".

Councillors will be asked to approve the 12 schemes at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

A report on the improvements says the council expects to receive about £3m from the Department for Education for school maintenance.

The funding is to prioritise "essential school condition and maintenance issues" across Derby for council-maintained schools.

This does not include schools in the city owned or managed by academies, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.

Proposals include a £498,000 scheme to improve roofing at secondary school, Littleover Community School, which comprises a "provision of new weather-tight roof covering to prevent further water ingress and damage to the building fabric".

The funding would make the heating system at Alvaston Infant and Nursery School more efficient and eco-friendly

About £424,000 could be spent on replacing boilers and pumps at Alvaston Infant and Nursery School "to avoid potential block closure".

The proposal would also separate the infant heating system from the neighbouring junior school, requiring a new dedicated plant room for the infant school.

More than £360,000 is being allocated to complete electrical rewiring at the whole of Oakwood Infant and Nursery School and more than £300,000 is being allocated to Roe Farm Primary School in Chaddesden for dozens of window replacements.

Meanwhile, demolition work to replace a run-down building is proposed at Dale Primary School and for a replacement playground surface.

The funding would be used to complete the rewiring of Oakwood Infant and Nursery School

The other schools set to benefit from the funding are Gayton Community Junior School (£178,000), Mickleover Primary School (£235,000), Murray Park School (£283,000), Pear Tree Infants School (£70,000), Ridgeway Infant School (£320,000), Rosehill Infants School (£90,000) and Shelton Junior School (£74,000).

Councillors on Wednesday will be asked to approve the 12 schemes at the cabinet meeting on Wednesday as well as any changes to each scheme which could cost up to £250,000.