I chaired a meeting of the Port Glasgow Shared Campus Working Group tonight and was pleased to hear that plans for the temporary and permanent shared campuses are progressing well.
A significant amount of work was carried out in St Stephen's during the last few weeks. Further work will be carried out over the summer holidays to get it ready for Port Glasgow High School moving in from August.
Tenders were issued on 12 April to contractors for the new campus with a return date of 13 June. All being well, the successful contractor should be appointed by 25 July with a start on the demolition of the existing Port High building penciled in for 19 August.
At our next meeting on 6 June the working group will receive a presentation from the design team on the latest designs for the new campus.
This arguably the most exciting single project the Council has undertaken and I am very much looking forward to work starting on the new campus.
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The thing I am unsure of is why the penciled date for demolition is as late as August. Surely the demolition could have been arranged just after the school closed for the holidays. After all this project has been on the go for quite a while.
ReplyDeleteThe school might close at the end of June but the resources from the school will not be transferred until August when the work in St Stephen's has been completed.
ReplyDeleteAlso the demolition will be carried out by the same contractor who will build the new campus. The contractor will not be appointed until the end of July.
The project might seems as if it has been on the go for a while but a project of this scale does take a lot of planning.