Willmott Dixon has won a £21m contract to develop three schools in Milton Keynes.

The award marks the first phase of Milton Keynes Council's £160m schools investment programme.

The project aims to deliver over 10,000 new school places.

Willmott Dixon is to build the first three schools, Newton Leys, Fairfield and Whitehouse Primary Schools.

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The company will work alongside three architects, CORDE for Fairfield, ADP for Whitehouse and Synergy for Newton Leys.

The new schools are to open in September 2016.

The firm was selected for the work through the National Major Works Framework, one of six frameworks provided by Scape Group.

The programme will see the creation of seven new schools, as well as expanding 12 schools by 2018.

(LM/CD)