Over £40 million released for environmentally friendly school in Aylesbury
The secondary school is set to be built in Kingsbrook by September 2022
The new secondary school is set to open in Kingsbrook in September 2022.
Plans for a new school in Aylesbury Vale are moving forward with £41.5million being released jointly from the national Housing Infrastructure Fun (HIF) and and £3.5million from Basic Need funding being released.
Planning permission is yet to be approved for the 1,080 place secondary school, including 32 places for a Special Educational Needs Unit.
The hope is that the site on the Kingsbrook development will be built with environmental issues in mind, aiming to minimise the carbon footprint of the school.
A spokesperson for the council said:
"The heating and hot water will be carbon neutral delivered via high efficiency air-source heat pumps. The roof area will have space for 204 square metres of PV panels, generating approximately 28,600 kwh/year.
"The building emissions rate will have a 44% reduction in carbon emissions and will achieve the highest Energy Performance Certificate rating of 'A'.
"The operational energy will be below 60 kwh/sqm/year, considerably lower than a typical low energy new school building which is typically around 80 kwh/sqm/year.
The design of the building has also reduced embodied carbon emissions by use of timber framed structural insulated panels that are used for all areas of external wall build-up."
Buckinghamshire Council hope the school will be built and open in time for the September term in 2022.