Kier Preferred Bidder For Multi-Million Pound Academy

The Twyford Church of England Academies Trust has selected Kier as preferred bidder for the new £18.95 million North Ealing Church of England Academy in Greenford, West London.

The school will have places for 1,200 11 to 16-year-olds, a sixth form with places for 250 students and a centre for children with special educational needs. Under current proposals, the local community will also be able to use the school’s facilities, including its full size sports pitches, floodlit hard playing surfaces, indoor sports hall and activity studio.


Executive head teacher, Alice Hudson, said: "I'm delighted to be able to go public on an imaginative design which responds so well to the features of the site. The building will look out onto the extensive playing fields and the trees making it very open to the community and wider world – this fits perfectly with the ethos we aim to create."

The Kier project team will submit a planning application to the London Borough of Ealing in the middle of May. Construction is expected to begin in October 2012, with the main building being complete for the first intake of pupils in September 2013. Internal fit-out works will continue until April 2014.

(CD/GK)