Initial 'enabling' work will start next week in preparation for construction of new £20.6 million premises for the Ormiston Bushfield Academy in Peterborough.

Contractor Kier will be removing some trees – more trees will be planted under landscaping improvements later – and starting ground-works for a temporary access road and a site compound. Further ground-works will also prepare a new site for relocating a Peterborough City Council maintenance depot. Hoardings will be erected around the car park area in mid-December.

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Early in the New Year construction will start on the installation of a 60-metre by 30-metre all-weather sports pitch suitable for seven-a-side games, maintaining some provision for school use until a full-size pitch is provided as part of the overall project.

Also in the New Year a new footpath/cycle route will be constructed to replace an existing route adjacent to the Bushfield sports centre.

The main construction project will then commence in early March.

(CD/GK)