The contractor will deliver a new Chapel Road School on Abbey Road. Completion is scheduled for the start of the new school year in 2017.
The two-storey Chapel Green School will include 14 classrooms as well as several specially designed learning rooms, including a sensory room and a hydro therapy pool room.
Other features include external works such as the creation of a main access road and several outdoor play areas. The project team will also create a terraced garden for outdoor learning.
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Karin Heap, headteacher at Chapel Road School, said: "We're so pleased that construction of the building is finally starting. Our pupils and staff will soon be able to learn and work in a school that is purposefully designed meaning that compromises on learning, due to restrictions in the accommodation, will be issues of the past."
Gavin Napper, area director at Morgan Sindall, said: "We're delighted to be starting work at Chapel Road School. The new facility will provide a modern education campus where children with learning difficulties can learn in a safe and comfortable environment.
"The design of the building harnesses the exciting nature of learning and pupils can benefit from the very best facilities at the new school from the start of the school year in 2017."
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