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Councils mount legal challenge to closure of school-building scheme
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The UK government is facing a multi-pronged
assault on its school and house building policies, with four councils and at least one property group threatening legal action against it. Nottingham City Council, Sandwell Council, Luton Borough Council, and Waltham Forest Council have started judicial review proceedings after hundreds of millions of pounds worth of school projects were halted without notice. Some were only weeks away from construction starting. Education Secretary Michael
Gove announced in July that plans to modernise or rebuild more than 700 schools would be abolished under Building Schools for the Future (BSF) as part of the multi- billion pound spending cuts. Gove has said he will fight such
Under BSF, Gove said, £11m
had been wasted on consultants, with one consultant securing the equivalent of £1.35m. The government is also facing
legal action from Catesby Property Group over the coalition’s decision to refuse planning permission for 400 homes in Bude, Cornwall, despite an inspector approving the application at appeal. According to Eversheds, the law
The closure of the BSF programme led to the cancellation of several school projects
legal action. During parliamentary questions last month he said: ‘We will vigorously contest the judicial review of our decision. It is really important that people appreciate that the Building Schools for the Future programme had failed.
Winning graduate heads for Vegas
Michael Gardner receives top prize in the 2010 CIBSE/ASHRAE Graduate of the Year Awards, sponsored by BAXI Commercial, held in London last month. Gardner wins a trip to Las Vegas, to attend ASHRAE’s winter meeting in January. He received the award from ASHRAE president Lynn Bellenger. Also pictured is Rob Manning, president of CIBSE. Gardner was one of six graduate
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finalists who competed at the awards event by giving a presentation to
judges and invited guests on the topic: ‘What tools does the modern building services engineer need to help society create a sustainable world?’. Second prize went to Mike Slessor, who works for Buro Happold, and third to James Wood, at 8build. This is the 15th year of the award, which aims to champion the achievements and potential of young building services engineers.
www.cibseashrae.org See Michael Gardner’s opinion column on page 24
‘Unfortunately, in 2008, instead
of 200 schools being built, fewer than 50 had been built. We will make no apology for ensuring that, in the education budget, money goes not to lawyers and consultants, but to the front line.’
firm representing the developer, the Secretary of State rejected the inspector’s recommendation because of his own decision to ‘revoke regional strategies and, in turn, the abandonment of the draft Regional Strategy for the South West’. Regional strategies were implemented by the Labour administration and set local authorities home building targets.
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