Houlton School

Education

CWM Project

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Houlton School has become the key ingredient in the recipe for a successful new community. Marrying listed building restoration, with state-of-the-art new development, the former Rugby Radio Station is now answering the secondary school place shortage with a brand new £38.9 million state of the art secondary school.

The building of any new community needs a focus, a staple, a main focal point and with the new community consisting of over 6,200 new homes, a new secondary school would become a mandatory requisite for the future.

The caveat to this community was that in the heart of it, included an old historic Grade II listed radio station which was built in 1926 and hosted the first transatlantic telephone call to New York. The former radio station was initially designed to be demolished and form part of the 6,200 homes. However, to address the need for a secondary school in the area and satisfy the s106 agreement in place, it was agreed that Morgan Sindall would form part of a team to transform the derelict radio station into a new secondary school.

Delivering both on time and to the £39m budget, the new educational campus includes a new teaching block with a main entrance and dining hall and will accommodate over 1,000 new pupils. There will be two new teaching blocks for STEM and Humanities, a new Sports Hall which will be up to the Sports England standard, teaching areas, office accommodation and changing rooms.