Knowsley BSF
Knowsley
Project Value - £171mProject Sector - Education 
About The Project
Transform Schools (Knowsley) Limited (Project Co) were appointed Preferred Bidder for the Building Schools for the Future Project (BSF) in December 2006. The Project involved the replacement of Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council’s existing eleven secondary schools with seven new build Learning Centres procured under a single Private Finance Initiative contract with a term of 25 years following service commencement at all new Learning Centres. On 19 May 2011 an amended and restated Project Agreement was signed to incorporate a Special Educational Needs (SEN) facility into the BSF scheme.
The construction works for the Learning Centres commenced in December 2007 and were completed in 2009, operational dates were between 2009 and 2010, excluding the Special Education Needs Facility (SEN) which was constructed and became operational in 2012.
Learning Centre
GIFA (m2) Completed Operational LC2a All Saints 11,100 21/12/2009 01/2010 LC4 Christ the King 9,585 02/01/2009 01/2009 LC5 Lord Derby 10,949 31/08/2009 09/2009 LC6 Knowsley Park 10,844 31/08/2009 09/2009 LC7 St Edmund Arrowsmith 10,315 21/12/2009 01/2010 LC8 Halewood 12,455 13/04/2009 06/2009 LC9 Kirkby High School 10,872 31/08/2009 09/2009 LC9a Bluebell Park 6,664 10/08/2012 09/2012
About The Project
Transform Schools (Knowsley) Limited (Project Co) were appointed Preferred Bidder for the Building Schools for the Future Project (BSF) in December 2006. The Project involved the replacement of Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council’s existing eleven secondary schools with seven new build Learning Centres procured under a single Private Finance Initiative contract with a term of 25 years following service commencement at all new Learning Centres. On 19 May 2011 an amended and restated Project Agreement was signed to incorporate a Special Educational Needs (SEN) facility into the BSF scheme.
The construction works for the Learning Centres commenced in December 2007 and were completed in 2009, operational dates were between 2009 and 2010, excluding the Special Education Needs Facility (SEN) which was constructed and became operational in 2012.
Learning Centre | GIFA (m2) | Completed | Operational | |
| LC2a | All Saints | 11,100 | 21/12/2009 | 01/2010 |
| LC4 | Christ the King | 9,585 | 02/01/2009 | 01/2009 |
| LC5 | Lord Derby | 10,949 | 31/08/2009 | 09/2009 |
| LC6 | Knowsley Park | 10,844 | 31/08/2009 | 09/2009 |
| LC7 | St Edmund Arrowsmith | 10,315 | 21/12/2009 | 01/2010 |
| LC8 | Halewood | 12,455 | 13/04/2009 | 06/2009 |
| LC9 | Kirkby High School | 10,872 | 31/08/2009 | 09/2009 |
| LC9a | Bluebell Park | 6,664 | 10/08/2012 | 09/2012 |
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