£56m investment is educating Yorkshire
£56M has been earmarked for secondary schools in Yorkshire.
The European Investment Bank will provide funding for schools in Bradford, Harrogate, Keighley, Bradford and Huddersfield.
The investment covers schools providing 8,500 places for Yorkshire school children.The project will also replace outdated and redundant buildings.
The EIB has provided £281m for 46 state schools across the country.
Jonathan Taylor, European Investment Bank vice-president said: “Today’s agreement unlocks much needed construction of new schools to replace outdated facilities in Yorkshire that will both improve education and benefit local construction companies.
“Our support for similar school investment under the wider Priority School Building Programme is already transforming schools elsewhere across the country.
“The European Investment Bank has a strong track record of supporting new hospitals, as well as crucial water, transport, energy, higher education and social housing investment in Yorkshire and we look forward to confirming support for new projects in Yorkshire in the coming months, as part of our commitment to backing long-term investment across the UK.”
The seven schools to be benefit from funding for revamps include Samuel Lister Academy in Bingley, Whitcliffe Mount Business and Enterprise College and All Saints Catholic College in Kirklees, Belle Vue Boys’ School and Carlton Bolling College in Bradford, Oakbank School in Keighley and Harrogate High School.
Building work has already commenced at four of the schools and will start shortly at the other sites.
Recent education investment in Yorkshire supported by the European Investment Bank includes construction at Bradford College, Leeds City College and the Universities of Hull and York, and schools in Barnsley, Bradford and Sheffield.
Yorkshire supported by the European Investment Bank include the Green Port in Hull, investment by Yorkshire Water and upgrading hospitals in Wakefield and Pontefract.
