The £50m Maybole Community Campus has been given the green light to deliver a new state-of-the-art learning facility
South Ayrshire Council will now progress towards starting the formal construction of the new Maybole Community Campus.
The new campus represents the biggest ever investment in a community campus in Maybole which means that local children, from two to eighteen years of age, will benefit from the new state-of-the-art learning facility.
It will also appeal to the wider community, with sporting facilities including outdoor sports facilities and a new swimming pool which will be available for public use.
The new Maybole Community Campus, which will be built on the site of the existing Carrick Academy, will incorporate a new academy, St Cuthbert’s Primary and a new non-denominational primary school that will be formed by amalgamating Cairn Primary and Gardenrose Primary.
There will also be Early Years provision, operating 52 weeks of the year.
The campus will have the capacity for 1,370 pupils.
‘Making Maybole a better place to live’
Councillor William Grant, children and young people portfolio holder for South Ayrshire Council said: “Planning approval makes the Maybole Community Campus a reality, and I am delighted that this takes us one step forward to making Maybole a better place to live.
“This project is a fine example of our continued commitment to learning and helping to close the attainment gap.
“It’s our biggest school project to date, and together with the new by-pass and planned regeneration of the high street, it will help to completely transform the town.”
Initial works are planned for spring next year with the new campus set to open in 2023.
