Bam prepares to start £24m Wigan school overhaul
Work to redevelop Fred Longworth High School in Tyldesley is due to begin next week after the contractor put pen to paper on a two-year construction contract.
The Department for Education has appointed Bam Construction to deliver a new facility at the Printshop Lane site on a £24m contract.
Phase one of the project will see the construction of a new three-storey teaching block, to be handed over in September 2023.
The second phase involves the demolition of the majority of the existing school and construction of new sports pitches. This part of the project is due to be ready for spring 2024.
The project could see the capacity of the school increase from 1,275 students to 1,350.
Fred Longworth is one of four Wigan schools earmarked for redevelopment under the DfE’s £1bn School Rebuilding Programme, announced in June 2020.
The others are St John Fisher Catholic High School, The Byrchall High School, Fred and St Thomas’ CE Primary School.
