Morgan Sindall has bagged a contract to complete a £5 million school project in Derby.

The contractor will deliver a new primary school and nursery on Radbourne Lane.

Hackwood Primary will house six classrooms and a 26-place nursery, added more than 200 new school places to the area. The school will also be a Sunesis Mosaic model.

It is being delivered through the Scape Venture framework, with funding from Redrow Homes East Midlands and Miller Homes as part of their plan to build more than 700 new homes on the neighbouring Hackwood Farm estate.

Independent property, construction and infrastructure consultancy, Pick Everard is providing project management and quantity surveying services for the project, which is currently being fabricated off-site in Hull.

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Rob Cant, framework director at Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure in the Midlands, said: "Innovative framework procurement options offer long-term social value for councils and the communities they serve. We are pleased to be delivering the new, first class education facilities at Hackwood Primary School as part of Scape's Venture framework."

Mike Salter, Group Development Director at Scape Venture added: "Hackwood Primary School is a perfect example of how the private and public sector can work together through the Scape Venture framework to deliver a new community facility in the most efficient way. It's an innovative and exciting collaboration with Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure, Lungfish and Sunesis working together utilising our Mosaic offsite product to ensure the school is delivered quickly with minimal impact on the environment."

The project is expected to be complete in time for the new academic year in September 2019.

(CM/MH)