Which schools will be involved?

Artist impressions of BSF schools

These artist impressions are the first visual images of how the new BSF schools may look. The images are working documents. BSF is a living project and the plans will be developed as the programme progresses.

BSF will be delivered in two stages. The first stage includes Scunthorpe's secondary schools, as listed below. The second stage, to begin around 2013, will include the remaining rural schools in North Lincolnshire. Despite the programme being split into two stages the latest ICT facilities will be available in all schools - no matter what stage they are in.

See the latest diagrams, plans and images for the BSF schools.

Phase 1/sample schools:

• Brumby Engineering College
• Melior Community College for Buisness Enterprise and the Arts

Phase 2:

• FTC - Performing Arts College
• The St Lawrences Academy

Phase 3:

• Frederick Gough School - A Specialist Language College
• St Bedes Catholic School - A Specialist Mathematics and Computing College
• St Hughs Communication and Interaction Specialist College

The BSF programme can't fully rebuild every school in the country. Each council has to prioritise which schools require full and partial rebuild within the money available. The council also has to remove surplus places due to falling school rolls. This means the new and refurbished schools will be designed to cater for forecasted pupils numbers in 2015. But each school will have the capacity to expand if pupil numbers increase beyond these projected numbers.

Procurement process

Each bid team had to take the initial plans for the two sample schools (Brumby Engineering College and Melior Community College) and, following consultation with the school user groups, produce different proposals. As the bid teams were in competitive dialogue phase it was not possible to publish the plans. However the school user groups were impressed by the different design approaches taken by the teams.

The design proposals were evaluated as part of the selection process and from September 2008 there were two bid teams left to submit final business cases. The successful bid team then had to produce a full planning application to the council at which stage it is possible to publish the plans (above).

The successful bidder, May Gurney, are now starting design work and pre-preparation meetings with school staff on the next two schools - FTC and The St Lawrence Academy.

Planning applications

For more information on the BSF planning applications please visit the council's online planning pages.

For specific planning information on Brumby Engineering College please quote reference PA/2007/1313 and for Melior Community College please quote reference PA/2007/1315.