{"id":99773,"date":"2021-09-28T14:48:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=99773"},"modified":"2021-09-28T14:48:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:48:10","slug":"southview-school-rickstones-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/southview-school-rickstones-academy\/99773\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction underway on \u00a39.6m SEND school in Essex"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kier.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kier<\/a> held a ceremony to mark the formal start of the project at Southview SEND School and New Rickstones Academy, both located at Conrad Road in Witham, Essex<\/h2>\n<p>The works at Southview SEND School will create 24 sixth form spaces and 10 residential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/send-school-wednesbury\/97890\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spaces for pupils<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new-build block at New Rickstones Academy will contain; seven general classrooms, two science labs, a staff work room, a science prep room, two food tech classrooms, an ICT suite, toilets and a plant room. The school will be increased from six form entry (FE), which is 900 pupils to eight form entry, which will be 1200 pupils.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from Kier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essex.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Essex County Council<\/a>, the school and the academy met to commemorate the commencement of the project.<\/p>\n<p>Both schemes are being delivered through Essex County Council\u2019s construction framework.<\/p>\n<p>Works to both educational sites have begun this month with completion due in Summer 2022.<\/p>\n<h3>Much-needed facilities for the area<\/h3>\n<p>Mark Dady, managing director at Kier Eastern &amp; Midlands, said: \u201cWe\u2019re pleased to be continuing our working relationship with Essex County Council in the delivery of these two facilities. Both are important projects for the local community and we hope they will benefits pupils for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tony Ball, Essex County Council&#8217;s cabinet member for education excellence, life long learning and employability, said: \u201cThese new state-of-the-art <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/send-beacon-college\/99550\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">education facilities<\/a> will help Essex County Council meet its strategic priorities of helping all residents of the county get the best start in life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Southview SEND School will provide much-needed facilities for the area and help us achieve our strategic aim of ensuring vulnerable children have access to the facilities needed to fulfil their potential, whilst the new build block at Rickstones Academy will help ensure more young people in Essex have access to an excellent education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth will be built to the highest possible environmental standards helping meet our ambitions to tackle climate change and work towards making Essex carbon neutral, as announced in the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essex.gov.uk\/climate-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Essex Climate Action Commission<\/a> report.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kier held a ceremony to mark the formal start of the project at Southview SEND School and New Rickstones Academy, both located at Conrad Road in Witham, Essex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[13038,997,472],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-99773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-building","8":"tag-development","9":"tag-kier"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Construction underway on \u00a39.6m SEND school in Essex<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kier held a ceremony to mark the formal start of the project at Southview SEND School and New Rickstones Academy, both on Conrad Road in Witham, Essex\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/southview-school-rickstones-academy\/99773\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Construction underway on \u00a39.6m SEND school in Essex\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kier held a ceremony to mark the formal start of the project at Southview SEND School and New Rickstones Academy, both on Conrad Road in Witham, Essex\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/southview-school-rickstones-academy\/99773\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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